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Hello,
I can't seem to get these blocks flat neither manually nor with the flatten command.
When trying to flatten it it gave me rather strange results.
Anyone have good ideas?
Regards,
Connor
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Hi,
I'd like to offer the following observations for the "human" block...
You seem to be using an AutoCAD vertical product as I see several indicators of AEC objects. The placement within the vertical product was obviously erratic with human blocks being between 2 million and 7 million units in the Z axis. Also very great distances in the X and Y axis.
When I select any single human block and use FLATTEN it works as expected with the new Z location as zero. Same result when I selected 12+ human blocks. I also used FLATTEN on a group of 5 workstations with human blocks and all objects changed to Z zero with no problems.
Not sure what could be preventing you from getting a successful FLATTEN?
Blaine
In your Flatten Attempt drawing the UCS isn't set to World. If you used Flatten when the UCS wasn't World it would move the elements unexpectedly. In the original drawing change the UCS to World and try Flatten again.
Since there are only blocks and plines in the drawing you can move all the elements to 0 elevation by changing the Z value in the Properties palette to 0. Sometimes changing the Z value is all that is required instead of using Flatten and can be quicker if there are only a few types of elements.
>>Here<< are more suggestions on how to move elements to 0 elevation.
Nancy
@Anonymous wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to get these blocks flat neither manually nor with the flatten command.
When trying to flatten it it gave me rather strange results.
Anyone have good ideas?
Regards,
Connor
I thought this to be the case as well but when I set the UCS to "Right" and used FLATTEN on one of the human blocks it went to Y0. Changing back to World WCS, the same block read Z0. The position stayed the same in Top view regardless of UCS setting.
Maybe trying several at once produces another result but it seems as though FLATTEN worked in both UCS's but left the block as desired.
Blaine
Thanks for your replies @beyoungjr, @neaton, @3wood.
A few points:
That drawing was an excerpt of a larger drawing with more issues. Please take a look at the drawings attached. Steps taken:
The x-, & y-coordinates of some objects seem to of changed after the move. I presume this is because they snapped to other objects while being manually moved to z=0.
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