How to make Z=0

[e.mounir]

Hi all

i have new project , we make the shop drawing for it . The problem is all object in the file (line, circle, pline, rectangle ….etc. ) this in all files , I want make every thing (Z=0) I used AUTOCAD2009

Marry Christmas for all of you

[CarlB]

To make existing objects have z=0, try the "flatten" command.

if command not recognized, you may have to install Express Tools, from the installation disk.

Another option is a lisp routine to do this, such as "superflatten" posted at http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=601653

[e.mounir]

It is not working

[tzframpton]

It is not working

Can you give a little more info on what's happening instead of just "It is not working"? What exactly isn't working for you, the FLATTEN command? Or the link to the other routine that was posted?

[lpseifert]

Try this...

Command: move

 

Select objects: all

19 found

 

Select objects:

 

Specify base point or [Displacement] : 0,0,0

Specify second point or : 0,0,1e99

 

Command: move

 

Select objects: p

19 found

 

Select objects:

 

Specify base point or [Displacement] : 0,0,0

Specify second point or : 0,0,-1e99

[tzframpton]

Hey lpseifert I went searching through the help file regarding those fancy coordinate entries and I couldn't find exactly what you typed and what it meant. Can you give an explanation of what you typed, why, and how it effects the objects? I'm not understanding the "1e99" part.

[lpseifert]

Under Units, it's Scientific (exponential notation)

1e99 means 1 times 10 to the 99th power (very large number)

 

I think....

since these numbers are beyond acad's ability to process accurately, acad sees them as the largest number that can be processed. So the Z value + the displacement value of 1e99 essentially equals 1e99. It may have something to do with acad's precision only being 16 decimal spaces.

I would imagine that some one else has a better/more accurate explanation. I learned this trick from CAB, maybe he knows.

[e.mounir]

The FLATTEN command not working and also the link

I do what lpseifert said but every thing go away (not display) not found in the drawing

[e.mounir]

it is working fine lpseifert thanks alot

[ReMark]

After doing what lpseifert said did you do a zoom > entents?

[e.mounir]

( Command: move

 

Select objects: all

19 found

 

Select objects:

 

Specify base point or [Displacement] : 0,0,0

Specify second point or : 0,0,1e99

 

Command: move

 

Select objects: p

19 found

 

Select objects:

 

Specify base point or [Displacement] : 0,0,0

Specify second point or : 0,0,-1e99

[pcoyote]

When I draw a straight line with Ortho on, it isn't straight. It has jags in it, like the drawing is slightly off

[tzframpton]

Does it happen on every drawing or just one drawing?

[pcoyote]

I am only working on one drawing - a large project, the only one on my new computer

[tzframpton]

Does this error happen in a fresh drawing?

[tzframpton]

Nvm. U got it on another post.

[SuperCAD]

Thread necromancy!

[alanjt]

thread necromancy!

mtg!

 

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[arunz]

Dear Mr. e.Mounir,

 

 

I have problem with z value.. I used AutoCAD LT 2014 here with attach the link can you find and explain the solution http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?86377-copy-paste-problem

[ReMark]

arunz: The last viable post in this thread was three years ago. Why don't you go back to your most recent thread and continue the discussion there.

 

FYI - The last time the forum member you are trying to address was on CADTutor was December, 2012. It's almost 18 months later.