drawing a line not true is it in 3d HELP

Hi

 

I draw a line from point to point in cad and it gives me a crazy answer like 10000.956 and it should say 0.54.

 

how do I turn my whole page into 2D,

 

Help Needed.

 

Lyle

Do you mean you want to move everything to the same elevation? Use the ._FLATTEN command.

 

If you just want to draw on the same plane no matter what, you can use point filters.

Thanks,

I tried the flatten command, But when drawing a line it does the same thing.

I high light all the points on the job and go to the match properties and go to line and make the z=0, and save it all. But once I go back and draw a line it still gives a line error

How did you manage to get your points put in at different "Z" elevations in the first place?

 

Have you tried the old "Change" command? The property to change would be "Elevation". After selecting all the objects AutoCAD should report back the value at "varies". Use the command to change this to "0".

Great

 

It worked, One thing is that when I draw a new line it still gives a length not true to what i draw, Over on match properties it says the start z of say 0.253. How do I make these all stay 0

Hi whippet,

If you know how to create macro button, you can use this DIESEL macro

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

Bye

Pascal

OK, No I dont know how to use it, havnt heard of macro button

You never answered my question.

 

You can be sure you are drawing a line at an elevation of "0" by first typing the command ELEVATION at the command line and setting it to "0". Thereafter ALL objects will be drawn at the elevation.

 

The macro above will move all objects to an elevation of "0". But you have already done that using the method I suggested.

 

If you want to learn more about the creation and use of macros I suggest you read through some of the columns by Michael Beall (see Michael's Corner). He has created a number of macros and buttons to invoke them.

Yes I did do what you told me, But once a start a new line and join to the point it gives a 3d Line again.

 

I downloaded from my Theodolite a DXF file straight to AutoCAD.

 

It comes from the Theodolite with a Z, It only seems to happen on the line and block reference, I go over to the match properties box after highlighted the drawing and go to line and make the Z line 0.

 

Also try to do this with the block reference some times it lets me sometimes it wont.

 

Once its all fixed and made 0, I go to a line and join line to line and the Z height appears again.

 

Does this help

Yes it does help. It puts the problem in context. Too often posters fail to provide a sufficient amount of "background" detail. That leaves us guessing and forces us to ask a lot of needless questions. Thank you.

 

Did you follow my advice?

Yeah all good

 

been reading it , Thanks

Hi remark,

Thanks for this information about "Michael's Corner"

We can find it out by google I suppose ?

 

I have dices time has to train users of autocad LT in advance program and the language DIESEL is often a good means to increase the capacities of tools.

On the other hand sometimes flatten do not work correctly, I have never known why and in that case about this macro resolved the problem.

It is the reason for which I proposed the macro in the case or.

But as you specified it the old elevation command is on another value than 0

Have a nice day

Pascal

Michael's Corner is literally right in front of you. Look at the top right-hand corner of this page. Michael's Corner is a main feature of the CADTutor website. Not only will you find new content each month but an archive of previous content is available as well.

 

The macro you have posted has been around for quite a while and I'm positive it has been referenced here many times in the past. But it is not unusual for newbies working with 3D content to be unaware of it. Thank you for posting it once again.

It is dices time the things which we have under the eyes which we do not see

I'm from the past....

Thanks again

Pascal

Hi whippet,

If you know how to create macro button, you can use this DIESEL macro

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

Bye

Pascal

 

Just to clarify, there is no DIESEL in that macro.

 

...havnt heard of macro button

And you won't find it in the documentation as that. Just "Macro", or maybe Menu Macro. See: http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%202010%20User%20Documentation/files/WS73099cc142f4875513fb5cd10c4aa30d6b-7d0a.htm

Yes I did do what you told me, But once a start a new line and join to the point it gives a 3d Line again.

But you did not try using point filters did you? You can also set OSNAPZ to 1 and when you use the NODE object snap to pick a point, the value of ELEVATION will be substituted for the actual "Z" elevation of the point.

Yes ok, Have tried this. I have just deleted all the point nodes and left it as lines and copy and pasted it into a new drawing and it seems to work.

 

Ive been on this all day been at this comp for 13 hours working out this out.

 

Im off Ill look at it tomorrow,

 

You guys are so helpful Thanks again

Howdy rkmcswain,

I agree, but this term is often used on the common language even if it is inccurate.

Thank you for rectifer my error of term

Have a good day

Pascal

whippet,

 

Before doing anything else you may want to confirm that you are drawing your lines and such while the UCS is set to the WCS (World). It is also important to visually see if you are in the WCS. Is your USCICON on? If not you may want to turn it on. Familiarize yourself with the UCS command. Also examine your BASE and INSBASE variables.

 

If you are experience this problem in new drawings as well you will want to examine your template files