JOIN — Join

Joins touching objects into one.

• Command: JOIN · Global name: _JOIN · Alias: J
• Ribbon: Home › Modify
• Menu: Modify
• Toolbar: Modify

Joins into a single object several objects that touch at their ends or lie on the same line, circle or ellipse: lines, arcs, elliptical arcs, polylines and splines.

Usage

1. Enter JOIN (or J) or click Join on the ribbon.
2. Select the source object or all the objects to join and press Enter. If they were already selected before starting the command, they are joined without asking.

Select source object or multiple objects to join at once:

3. If you selected a single arc or a single elliptical arc, you can select more arcs or enter C (Close) to turn it into a circle or a full ellipse.

Select arcs to join to source or [Close]:

Notes

• Lines on the same straight line are joined into one line from end to end, even with gaps between them.
• Arcs of the same circle are joined into one arc, counterclockwise from the first one selected, even with gaps; if they cover the whole turn, the result is a circle. The same for arcs of the same ellipse.
• Objects that touch at their ends form a chain: a polyline if they are lines, arcs and polylines, or a spline if there is any spline or elliptical arc. If the chain ends where it starts, the result is closed. More than one object can result.
• The result keeps the properties (layer, color...) of the first object of each group, the source.
• Objects that are already closed (circles, ellipses, closed polylines and splines) are not joined. As in AutoCAD there is no fuzz distance: to add objects with gaps to a polyline, use the Join option of PEDIT.
• The command line says how many objects were joined and into how many; if there is nothing to join, it says so.

See also

PEDIT · SPLINEDIT · EXPLODE · BREAK · PLINE · Selecting objects