Planes in ACAD 1

[dbrlogan]

I only use acad for 2D work. But now I found that in some of my new drawings lines are on different planes and are not intersecting for hatch or OSNAP commands.

I haven't found how to set everthing to one plane in HELP yet.

Any suggestions on fixing this?

Thanks

 

[LHA]

If you have Express Tools:
Express/Modify/Flatten Objects
puts everything in 2D

If not, it depends on the objects. Elev=0 makes all essentially 2D.

For polylines, select all, open properties, choose a common elevation.

For lines, select all, make all have common Start Z and End Z.

For circles, select all, make all have common Center Z.


Engineering is the practice of the art of science - Steve

 

[dbrlogan]

Thanks
My elevations all still read zero.
How do I select and call out a start and end z?
I can't find this in help.

How can I reset my plane so that everything is on the flat xy plane for a new drawing?

 

[CarlB]

"My elevations all still read zero."

From your first post it appeared they did not all read zero and that was the problem (not on the same plane). So by reading zero is all now well?

"How do I select and call out a start and end z?"

When prompted for a coodinate, enter x,y,z; or select on an object with OSNAP activated to aquire the z; or when prompted for a point type ".xy" then select point then enter the z value.

"How can I reset my plane"

Type "UCS" "WORLD", then type "PLAN" so view aligns with UCS.

 

[LHA]

Thanks for ".xy", Carl!

I always KNEW there had to be someway to manually pick your x and y, but still get to type z. I just didn't know how.

As you probably know, that ability will take me far in preparing site/civil plans.

Engineering is the practice of the art of science - Steve

 

[dbrlogan]

I was able to move things to the same plane but I am still not on that plane to draw new items and I don't know how to get there.

Also one of my drawings is 90 degs from the world plane and I can't add things, move it to a different file or rotate it.
I don't know how this happened or how the files got oriented like this, (second week at new job w/files w/problems) and I don't know how to repair this. ACAD help is no help.

 

[CarlB]

To get on the "same plane" set your "ELEVATION" to 0.

Don't know what to suggest for a drawing out of whack and can't be moved. Can you "list" items from the drawing? Are they separate entities, a block, xref, what?