Working with complex polylines and splines

We have learned about polylines and splines in previous chapters, but that was just the basics, and both these tools have a lot more to offer than the basic drawing feature. In this section, we will discuss all the interesting features of polyline and line tools, and we will start with polylines.

Complex polylines

To make a polyline, select the Polyline tool from the Draw panel of the Home tab or use its command alias, PL. Start the polyline command, and you will notice many options on the command line, as shown in Figure 8.46:

Figure 8.46: Subcommands of the polyline command on the command line

Select the Halfwidth option from the command line, or type H, and press Enter. Now,...