Z coordinates
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Topic: Z coordinates
Posted By: mcacic
Subject: Z coordinates
Date Posted: 06.Feb.2018 at 23:21
Is there a way to tun off Z coordinates?
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Replies:
Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 06.Feb.2018 at 23:41
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Why? What are you doing wrong that some of your entities have a Z greater or lesser than zero? ------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: mcacic
Date Posted: 06.Feb.2018 at 23:51
| to avoid having to flatten drawing and having new lines etc being drawn in 2d only without having a z coordinate and avoid having issues when filleting and trimming, etc. |
Posted By: Kent Cooper
Date Posted: 07.Feb.2018 at 20:58
| You can force any Object Snapping to ignore Z coordinates in AutoCAD, with the OSNAPZ System Variable. That won't change any already-existing things with non-zero Z coordinates. But you can't "turn off" Z coordinates like those -- for some things you can collectively change Z coordinates to 0 in the Properties box, but for others FLATTEN may be the only choice if you really need them all in the XY plane. I agree with the question about what is causing things to be non-zero in the Z direction. If you're getting drawings from other that way, you can't control that, but if there are careless procedures in your operations, you should be able to improve on that. |