Command: X2P (Xplode to Polyline)


X2P (Xplode to Polyline) Command

x2p command ribbon
  • X2P stands for “Xplode to Polyline”. 
  • To run: you may type X2P as a command, or find the button highlighted in yellow above.
  • X2P lets you explode polylines into polyline components instead of lines and arcs.
  • This can be useful if you need to access the pieces individually, but you would like these pieces to maintain polyline properties such as width, thickness, or constant elevation.
  • When grip editing regular lines, they snap to elevations of objects or to the drawing default elevation, potentially resulting in different elevations at different ends of the line.  Thus, if we want to explode, grip edit, and snap, while maintaining a constant elevation, X2P is the answer.