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   I had the same question as John, but he asked it and you answered.

You won't find anything in the standard AutoCAD box that will do this, so I'd suggest you head over to Lee Mack Programming and sift thru the various LISP routines there and see if something looks close that can be modified.  It's going to take a custom routine almost certainly.

Dave.

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heinsite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05.Feb.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2014 Status: Offline Points: 640	Topic: Breaking 3D Polylines at specific Intervals Posted: 11.Jul.2012 at 04:36
	I had the same question as John, but he asked it and you answered. You won't find anything in the standard AutoCAD box that will do this, so I'd suggest you head over to Lee Mack Programming and sift thru the various LISP routines there and see if something looks close that can be modified. It's going to take a custom routine almost certainly. Dave.
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bigalfry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12.Jan.2010 Location: Canada Using: Civil 3D 2012, RoadEng5 Status: Offline Points: 10	Posted: 11.Jul.2012 at 00:02
	Almost none of the lines lengths are exact multiples of 500 so I'd imagine that one of two things would happen - either it is divided into 500m long lengths with the last piece being a kind of remainder and less than 500m long, or the lines are divided into equal parts as close to 500m as possible. From my limited knowledge of LISP I'm confident that the former would be the easier route to go but either would work.
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John Connor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01.Feb.2011 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2018 Status: Offline Points: 7175	Posted: 10.Jul.2012 at 23:58
	Sounds like something that would require a custom lisp routine. What happens if the lines aren't in increments of 500m? Say a line is 3261.12m. What happens then?
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bigalfry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 12.Jan.2010 Location: Canada Using: Civil 3D 2012, RoadEng5 Status: Offline Points: 10	Posted: 10.Jul.2012 at 18:36
	Hey guys, I have a file containing approximately 5000 3D poly lines and I want to be able to select them all and have them all broken into 500m long pieces. Anybody know of a way to do this? Thanks!
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