Moving drawing from front view to top view

Alexia_tanas · ‎02-11-2023

Hi everybody, I am new to autocad and I am struggling with a file in imported from Rhino. I drew my shapes on rhino using the front view wich was best suited to what I needed to do there. I have converted the rhino file to dwg and I have opened it on autocad for mac 2023. I am using autocad for 2D drawimg so I need the shapes on autocad to be flat in my top view however I can only seem to have them in the same position they were originally drawn in (front) ND i have not found any wayt to rotate/orbit the drawing. Anybody knows how i can move a drawing from front to top view ?

maxim_k · ‎02-11-2023

Hi @Alexia_tanas ,

You can do the following:

1/ Open exported drawing in AutoCAD

2/ Click on a small triangle above S letter on ViewCube. This will set the view from the the Top to the Front in AutoCAD - in Rhino it was Front view. Now you should see the shapes you drew in Rhino

3/ Use "View" option of UCS command to align XY plane of coordinate system with current view

4/ Use CUTCLIP command and type ALL when AutoCAD asks to select objects, hit Return to complete CUTCLIP command.

5/ Use UCS command again and simply hit Return to go back to WCS

6/ Use PLAN command to set view perpendicular XY plane of the current UCS which is the WCS

7/ Use PASTECLIP command to paste all your shapes to the drawing, now they all lay down on the XY plane of the default coordinate system (WCS)

8/ Save the drawing and continue drafting.

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