heni30 Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 (edited) I received these 2D acad files of an interior that have vertices going up and down in 3d - like about 500 feet. It's a pain just looking at it and when I do "zoom extents" my building is small because it includes the rogue vertices. Is there any command in acad that would flatten everything out like it's supposed to be? Edited November 8, 2014 by heni30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Yeah, pretty much old school problem, as the original drawing was made on topographical drawing, with Z axe. Try this command FLATTEN OR, just in case that upper command wont work 1. CTRL+A> MOVE >0,0,1e99 2. CTRL+A> MOVE > 0,0,-1299 3. CTRL+A> MOVE>D>0,0,0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Completely unrelated but wtf is that gui colour scheme you have going on? It looks awful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heni30 Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 (edited) Hey, thanks Zdravko. Flatten doesn't work. And the move commands might have gotten rid of the depth problem but when it comes into max it is so far in outer space that max can't find it. (I tried changing the absolute world coordinates and moving it with type-in values but max just keeps the values of 8333333'4" - no change. Max refuses to have anything to do with it. (small store floor plan is 1600 miles away from 0,0,0,. Edited November 10, 2014 by heni30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heni30 Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Completely unrelated but wtf is that gui colour scheme you have going on? It looks awful! Ha Ha - I just inverted the screen shot colors in Photoshop to make the spiking effect more visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Ahhh ok, I was going to ask how on earth you can get on with something like that haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heni30 Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 FLATTEN worked! I just didn't have Express Tools installed. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Cheers! And, yes, converted GUI looks like 3D studio on MS-DOS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marius e Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Can also go to front view for example. select all - properties / start y=0 and end y=0 Elevation=0 To all elements possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numerobis Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Max refuses to have anything to do with it. (small store floor plan is 1600 miles away from 0,0,0,. why don't you move it to 0,0,0, in acad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heni30 Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) @ Can also go to front view for example. select all - properties / start y=0 and end y=0 Elevation=0 To all elements possible. I tried doing that but when selecting all the lines the option to change start and end values was not available. Selecting some of them gave that option. But that means I'd have to hunt down the lines that were causing the problem. @ why don't you move it to 0,0,0, in acad? Yep - but at that point (no pun intended) I had Googled the problem and saw that Flatten wasn't working because Express Tools was missing. Edited November 12, 2014 by heni30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincentg87 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The other way to flatten it is to apply a ffd 2x2 modifier to the whole shape and bring down everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhopudey Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Or in max, press f12, and bring z scale to zero. Then attach this drawing to a new shape to reset the transforms back to 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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