Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help me to distribute a POLYLINE and/or MLINE inside of a POLYLINE area.

I design underfloor heating systems. The problem is drawing the loops. I would like a quicker more automated way.

What i am looking to achieve is to use an area, lets say a square 10m x 10m. and distribute two parallel polylines that are 250mm apart, when it reaches the other side of the area it turns a corner and comes back until its filled the area, sort of like a dynamic hatch! dynamic hatch thats what im looking for!

Here is an example of underfloor heating loops




I hope that makes sense!??

I am using autocad 2006/07/08/09 on various computers.

Thanks for a great forum!

Ben


Edited by warmwhisky - 23.Jul.2008 at 22:53

Thanks for the reply Pepar,

Thing is; when you have to draw 60 flats, each with 10 loops. your index finger starts to hurt! As with all of the ways that I know how to do it, they all require a fair amount of elbow grease. Or you just settle for a polyline with a boring hatch!

it would be nice for the polyline to be dymanic and exact as I would like to know the length of the loop.

I'm starting to think I may need to pay someone to code something for me??

I think this would be very useful and worthy command... DISTRIBUTE



Edited by warmwhisky - 23.Jul.2008 at 23:55

PepaR wrote: You can give it as task for some programmers - Xanadu offers this service. By the way, you can use some software by traders with heat loops eg.: RAUCAD (TechCON).

Dude you are the one! I just translated the site with google and hey presto.
looks like it will do do far more than I wished for and its free.

Just downloading now..Fingers crossed!

Thanks a lot!




Edited by warmwhisky - 24.Jul.2008 at 00:33