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    <title>tema Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer en AutoCAD Forum</title>
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    <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1137264"&gt;@paullimapa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I’m sure they’re referring to pdf not dwg so make this adjustment to your Dwg To Pdf.pc3 device before generating any PDFs:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-turn-off-layer-and-comment-information-when-plotting-to-pdf.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-turn-off-layer-and-comment-information-when-plotting-to-pdf.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;We have yet to encounter a US based Governmental Jurisdiction already hell-bent on 'flattened' PDFs accepting the results from AutoCAD with that method, that still have 'something" they find and object to fiercely.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:13:39 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-08-11T15:13:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi. I'm working on drawing submission &amp;amp; one requirement is that 'All drawings must be flattened into a single layer'&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does this mean that they only need to see one layer on my drawing then flatten? I know the command flatten.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>jovenm_2000</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-11T14:14:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/all-drawings-must-be-flattened-into-a-single-layer/m-p/12164900#M1112617</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14280936"&gt;@jovenm_2000&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Welcome to the forum.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Instead of guessing what the "requirements" mean, ask the client to elaborate.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It may mean making all objects/element in AutoCAD flat - using the FLATTEN Command, and on one layer (highly unlikely) - but why guess.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Or maybe this...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/printing-complex-pdfs-acrobat.html#:~:text=your%20PDF%20file.-,Open%20the%20copy%20and%20choose%20Advanced%20%3E%20PDF%20Optimizer.,Layers%2C%20and%20then%20click%20OK." target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Merge or flatten layers in the PDF&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ValentinWSP_0-1691767145879.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1252186i4691E5D3A1938B22/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="ValentinWSP_0-1691767145879.png" alt="ValentinWSP_0-1691767145879.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ValentinWSP_1-1691767171408.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1252187iB3B9FC557F44F2E1/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="ValentinWSP_1-1691767171408.png" alt="ValentinWSP_1-1691767171408.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:21:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Valentin-WSP</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-11T15:21:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/all-drawings-must-be-flattened-into-a-single-layer/m-p/12164933#M1112619</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14280936"&gt;@jovenm_2000&lt;/a&gt; Why are you asking us what "they" want?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Since you seem unsure... I suspect your jurisdiction is actually asking you to do this to your submitted PDF drawings (which has nothing to do with AutoCAD BTW) &lt;A href="https://myresearchpath.duke.edu/quick-reference-guide-how-flatten-pdf" target="_blank"&gt;https://myresearchpath.duke.edu/quick-reference-guide-how-flatten-pdf&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://pdfpro.com/blog/guides/how-to-flatten-a-pdf/" target="_blank"&gt;https://pdfpro.com/blog/guides/how-to-flatten-a-pdf/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.printivity.com/insights/what-flatten-pdf-file-means-and-how-to-do-it/" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.printivity.com/insights/what-flatten-pdf-file-means-and-how-to-do-it/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;HTH</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:46:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-11T14:46:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/all-drawings-must-be-flattened-into-a-single-layer/m-p/12164954#M1112622</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I’m sure they’re referring to pdf not dwg so make this adjustment to your Dwg To Pdf.pc3 device before generating any PDFs:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-turn-off-layer-and-comment-information-when-plotting-to-pdf.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-turn-off-layer-and-comment-information-when-plotting-to-pdf.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:52:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>paullimapa</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-11T14:52:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/all-drawings-must-be-flattened-into-a-single-layer/m-p/12165010#M1112632</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1137264"&gt;@paullimapa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I’m sure they’re referring to pdf not dwg so make this adjustment to your Dwg To Pdf.pc3 device before generating any PDFs:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-turn-off-layer-and-comment-information-when-plotting-to-pdf.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-turn-off-layer-and-comment-information-when-plotting-to-pdf.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We have yet to encounter a US based Governmental Jurisdiction already hell-bent on 'flattened' PDFs accepting the results from AutoCAD with that method, that still have 'something" they find and object to fiercely.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:13:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-11T15:13:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/all-drawings-must-be-flattened-into-a-single-layer/m-p/12165040#M1112637</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Time to work in the city of LA. Just helped a friend submit a set of PDFs with the flattened requirement from using AutoCAD and all went through without a hitch&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:25:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>paullimapa</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-11T15:25:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: All drawings must be flattened into a single layer</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/all-drawings-must-be-flattened-into-a-single-layer/m-p/12168224#M1112701</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Is your site LA County, California? Or in Canada?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Flattened drawings are typically done to put all objects at Z=0, or all entities at mean sea level. &amp;nbsp;By placing all objects on the same drawing plane, distances can be accurately determined from&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;plan view.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If your drawings only need to measure horizontal distances the flattened command will allow a user to ignore Z-values and only consider the X- and Y-components of distances.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Foe example, if you have two adjacent points in a drawing, the dimensioned distance between them might be 24.6.meters. On the printed hardcopies, though, they only ‘appear’ to be 3.5 meters apart. Why? Because one point is at the top of a waterfall and the other at the bottom. Or on top of a building for&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;one point and on the sidewalk for the other.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Flattening a drawing using the flatten command doesn’t mean to put objects on a single layer, it means to out all objects on the Z=O plane or to ‘remove’ all elevation from the drawing, to make it flat. The layers can remain at status quo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If you draw using Civil3D, this might, or might not,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;require extra steps in addition to using the flatten command, especially if you create TINs b/c surface elevation is critical to your scope of work, such as final surface grade and water drainage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Does your office produce engineering type plans and do you frequently require agency approval for those plans?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ChicagoLooper</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-13T19:59:54Z</dc:date>
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