DXF paths messed up after using "Change like draw tool"

Brendan McCoy

I have trimmed some road SHP files and saved them as DXFs. When I load them into a map and position+scale them, they look fine!

Then I go to style them, any change that changes the thickness causes them to generate weird geometry artifacts, typically in the form of random lines of varying thickness draw on random parts of the map.

In this first post is a pic showing the lines before thickness modifications.

Brendan McCoy

Attached is the roads after being thickened, with the weird artifacts.

Brendan McCoy

In case those attachments never load, heres an imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/yj9JVPH

Shessar

This is usually caused by two or more nodes being too close together. Use the SIMPLIFY command on the entity by typing it on the command line. Sorry, I'm not sure what the best didsance would be for the setting for this. Probably something small.

Brendan McCoy

Oooh, that's a great command to know about in general! Hmm, any way to iterate over all paths in a layer with it?

Shessar

Unfortunately not. However, the command remains active until you right click or hit ESC to end it, so you can just keep clicking entities and even one entity multiple times if needed.