A polyline is a chain of straight segments. A curve made this way consists of many short straight pieces rather than one true curve.
DXF stores curves as polylines. PatternScan Pro splits every curve into 32 segments for that, fine enough that the rounding arrives cleanly in CAD.

Digitize sewing patterns without tracing.
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