When I export polylines in DXF format from AutoCAD 14, the FastShip DXF translator doesn translate the polylines. Why not?
As of AutoCad Release 14 a new entity called the “lightweight” polyline (lwpolyline) has been introduced, which is a smaller more efficient form for the 2D polyline. The FastShip dxf2idf conversion routine only recognizes the standard polyline entity used in earlier versions of AutoCad and still supported in Release 14. Any lwpolyline entities encountered in a DXF file will be ignored by the FastShip converter. Therefore, if a user wishes to export a DXF file from AutoCad in a form which can be translated by FastShip, he/she must ensure that all polyline information is stored as standard polyline entities. If the AutoCad 14 user wishes to ensure that the AutoCad PLINE command creates standard polylines (and that when opening older drawing files, standard polylines are not converted to lwpolylines) set the PLINETYPE flag to 0. If the AutoCad 14 user has a drawing file which already has lwpolylines in it, choose the ACAD R13 export option when exporting to DXF to have lwpolylines convert
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