3D to 2D

I want to convert a 3D object to 2D lines. I've used the wonderful FLATSHOT command for this in the past, but my current employer uses Autocad 2004, so flatshot is not an option. What is the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks in advance for help.

-Aaron

Do you need the object in 2D just for the drawing? If so you can set up multiple viewports with each one set to a different view (Front, Right, Top, etc...). Been awhile since I used 04, but if you can go into the visual styles manager, you can set your 3D Hidden style to display obscured edges as a hidden linetype as well.

You could plot to a dxb file and insert the dxb file back into your DWG file. This does not destroy your file like the flatten lisp.

You will need to install the DXB printer in ACAD but it is not hard to do.

The drawing I'm doing is a Plot Plan drawing, so I only need one view of it. There are 2 blocks however (vendor drawings of course) that are 3D and are all over the Z axis randomly. I just want to get everything on *,*,0 plane.

if you want to permanently make the objects 2d you can use the flatten lisp, ive attached it. Its an autodesk lisp. just load it through appload and type flatten then you may need to select the objects or it might run on everything, i havent used it in a while. hope it helps

flatten.lsp