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    I am trying to export a curve drawn in the Right viewport to AutoCAD - where I need it in plan (Top) view. When I select the curves in Rhino and do File>Export, the curve ends up facing the wrong direction in AutoCAD (i.e. with the Top view selected on the View Cube in AutoCAD, all I see is a single line - not the outline of the part I'm working on).

    What's the trick here? How do I take a profile drawn in 3D in Rhino and flatten & export it to 2D for further work in AutoCAD?

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    Why don't you just change the orientation of your UCS and rotate the line(s)?

    Post a copy of the DWG file here. Someone will take a look at it.
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    Frame_0.dwg

    Ask, and ye shall receive. This should be a roughly V-shaped figure, with the point of the V pointing down and the arms pointing up.

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    Only in your imagination. I used 3Dorbit to take a look at it and could not see the "V" you speak of.

    When I run the Erase command AutoCAD finds six objects which are identified as splines.
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    Figured it out. Select curves, select front view, make2d, export.

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