can't copy a view

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I downloaded a valve (cad) in the festo site. Well, I need the upper view, but when I rotate the draw and copy the upper view and paste in my draw the program pastes the left view. How can I get the upper view.

please, help me!

[jseefdrumr]

When you copy and paste, you're copying the whole object. Whatever angle that you're viewing it from when you copy it, isn't a part of the information that gets carried over to the destination drawing.

If you need the 3D part in your drawing, you will have to paste it into the drawing and then manipulate the object itself (using 3D rotate probably) so that you're looking at the correct side of it.

If you only need a 2D representation, you can use the FLATTEN command to create one out of the 3D model. You would do this in your downloaded model, by setting up the view you want, and then entering FLATTEN on the command line. The result will be a little sloppy (for instance, a circle won't be a circle, it'll be a collection of dozens of line segments), but usable. After this was done, THEN you would do a copy-paste into the final destination drawing.

Hope this helps,
Jim

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the answer. Well I need the 2d to use in the front view of my control panel. When I use this Flatten comand , I got only one straight line:

If I rotate again I see what I want to.  I need this view on my draw:

But as you can see, this view is outside the draw. Please help me.

[jseefdrumr]

Use 3D Rotate to manipulate the flattened object so that it is in line with the rest of the 2D drawing.

I don't use the toolbars/palettes/buttons etc., so I don't where to find the command. Type ROTATE3D at the command line and follow the prompts. I usually find it easier to do this if I start out in an isometric view, rather than from the side or top.

Jim

[Anonymous]

Thanks you so much! You really helped me out on this issue!

[jseefdrumr]

You're welcome...also, in case you have to do this again in the future, I remembered something.

When you're in the original 3D model drawing, and have used the FLATTEN command, at that point you could just WBLOCK the drawing from right there. I *think* that if you insert as a block in the destination drawing via INSERT, it will come in exactly as it was saved during WBLOCK.

[rhesusminus]

Use the viewcube to get the view you want. Then use the FLATSHOT command, to create a picture of your view of the object in the current coordinate system.

Uncheck the "Show Obscured Lines" checkbox.

[jseefdrumr]

Man, I'm so old school sometimes....totally forgot about flatshot. *slaps forehead*

[rhesusminus]

You think YOU'RE old school? This is me in 1987, AutoCAD R9. tracing a F-15 Eagle on our summagraphics digitizer 

[jseefdrumr]

You win. I wasn't even in high school yet in '87.

[Anonymous]

 1987，

AutoCAD R9，

F-15 Eagle ，

it's cool~~!!!