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Cut plane in vanilla Acad

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GilesPhillips
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Cut plane in vanilla Acad

I've got a model of some structural steelwork, created in MEP (Architecture) that I want to use in vanilla autocad.

Problem is that regular autocad seems to display in plan view with a default cut-plane (1400mm) regardless of how I set the various display configurations in MEP(arch). I need to move the cut plane up (a lot). Any thoughts as to how I can do this?

ACad, MEP, Revit, 3DS Max
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Keith.Brown
in reply to: GilesPhillips

If you are going to be using the steel in vanila autocad and you will have no reason to edit it again then i would suggest just converting them to 3D solids.  You can do this using the CONVERTTO3DSOLID command.  I would do it to a copy of the original file as to not destroy your original work.

 

If you have your heart set on using the original steel then i would look into how the steel displays in the STANDARD display configuration.  I cannot verify it but i would take a guess that the display of steel in this display representation is what vanila autocad is using.

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GilesPhillips
in reply to: Keith.Brown

I'd prefer not to convert to 3d solid, however I guess that could be used as a workaround for now.

 

I've already set the 'standard' display configuration to the correct cut-plane elevation for my needs, however I think something overrides this.

 

edit: Duh! just realized that I'm missing the obivous. the metalwork file displays fine in vanilla autocad when opened on it's own. It doesn't display right when xreffed into another file.

 

Perhaps I should be looking at the settings of the other file? Doh!

ACad, MEP, Revit, 3DS Max

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