Jfennell Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 I am dealing with a survey drawing i recieved from a sub-contracted company that does work for our firm. the problem i am having is that i need to lay my line work over thiers to show proposed conditions, thier line work is at many different elevations so to speak about the z axis. i tried to use flatten and it doesnt seem to work. the main issue this is causing is that my line thicknesses don't seem to show the right thickness, i believe this is because when you look at them from the top view they must be skewed slightly with respect to the rest of the drawing due to this "elevation" problem. any insight would be greatly apprieciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustysilo Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Can you post a screen shot of the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Is this issue in printed products/paper space or only on screen in the model? It sounds more like a pen table (ctb, etc) issue to me... If the survey is correct (in the z plane) it should still look correct in plan view... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA-CAD Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 your right mate flatten should solve this issue but you said it does not work. I had this problem before but to check select one of the lines you have drew with the global thickness added, then go to properties and then change the z value to 0 and see if that fixes the problem. Did flatten not change all the z ponits to zero already? Are you using the survey drawing as an x-ref? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I guess I just don't understand why you would want to flatten a valid 3d survey? Seems like there should be some other reason for the issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA-CAD Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I guess I just don't understand why you would want to flatten a valid 3d survey? Seems like there should be some other reason for the issue... when we use survey drawings we tend only to need the heights for importing to PDS or similar software, If we are making a seperate drawing ie proposed G.A. then as long as the heights are clearly annotated then there is no real need for them to have a z value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Search on google for SUPERFLATTEN lisp file, ver 1.2c by Joe Burke I believe. You will find it at theswamp.org as well, free registration may be required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merdrignac Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 You might like to try this button macro: C^C_move;_all;;0,0,0;0,0,1e99;_move;_p;;0,0,0;0,0,-1e99; Has been very usefull for me. One click does all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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