All lines back to Z,0 please

Hi all

I am hoping someone can help me with this problem.

I have been working on a steel portal frame drawing for a couple of days, which has involved using various other company detailed drawings, i.e cladding sections, beams etc.

I have noticed my snaps have not been picking up intersections and then realised a lot of my lines have ended up on various Z heights because the imported objects have had thicknesses.

Is there a way of selecting all lines and restoring them to Z,0

Flatten does not work.

Hope the above makes sense, please help.

Cheers.

select them all and change the Z values to 0 in properties usually works for me.

Dave: Would the Elevation command work in this case?

Dave

I have tried that but the drawings has seperate lines, blocks, objects etc. When everything is selected the properties does not have the option to change any axis and just says 'VARIES'

Any ideas

Thanks

or the flatten command seems to work fine for me

Dave

 

I have tried that but the drawings has seperate lines, blocks, objects etc. When everything is selected the properties does not have the option to change any axis and just says 'VARIES'

 

Any ideas

Thanks

At the top of the Properties box you have a pull down menu where you can select the different entities and then you get the elevation-option and can change it.

Dave

 

I have tried that but the drawings has seperate lines, blocks, objects etc. When everything is selected the properties does not have the option to change any axis and just says 'VARIES'

 

Any ideas

Thanks

Try opening your properties palette, then select all (Ctrl+A). At the very top of the palette there should be a dropdown box (it will say something like All (12507) or something similar), click the dropdown arrow and you should see one of the items Line (352) or something similar, click that then you can modify the Z fields as Dave suggested but only effect those lines.

Varies just means at least 2 of the objects selected have different values, you can still overwrite the information and it will effect all the selected entities.

Try this LISP routine

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2019

Brilliant :wink:

Many thanks all.

Cheers for the lisp. skip. Handy.

Dave

 

I have tried that but the drawings has seperate lines, blocks, objects etc. When everything is selected the properties does not have the option to change any axis and just says 'VARIES'

 

Any ideas

Thanks

Handy.

Tell me about it, i must use it 8 - 10 times a week i sometimes forget FLATTEN even exists anymore

Try this button macro

C^C_move;_all;;0,0,0;0,0,1e99;_move;_p;;0,0,0;0,0,-1e99;

Single click does all.