drawing in 2d in autocad 2014

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I'm having great diffaculty drawing in 2d in Autocad. Normally I work in Inventor but have a 2d schematic I need to do in Autocad 2014. I'm not very familiar with it and the problem I'm having is keeping everything in the same plane. I'm drawing in the x-y plane but keep getting message "objects are not in the same plane". When I switch to another view i.e. right, left, top etc., I see my lines are all over the place in the z plane. Is there a way to simply flatten everything to the x-y plane? What am I doing wrong for this to happen? In Inventor, I can sketch in 2d in say, a drawing, and never have this problem. Could someone please help?

Many Thanks,

mlstalter

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Create a box around all of the geometry on your drawing selecting everything.

Open the properties pallette and at the top select the drop down arrow, select one of the elements (line) and then in the properties select the start Z and make it zero; select the end Z and make it zero.  The Delta Z should automatically correct to zero and if it doesn't just correct it.  Go back to the next element in the drop down list and do the same.  Repeat until you have everything. 

Regards,

Mark

mtk220

[Anonymous]

Many thanks Mark, this worked great for existing geometry. Is there a way to set the z at 0 or lock it at 0 for all new geometry?

[steve216586]

For future reference:

The command FLATTEN may be used to Convert 3D geometry to 2D. It will save you time from changing entities individually.

Also, if you want everything to be drawn only on the X,Y axis use the command string:

UCS

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