Hi Alex,
Was this exported from Rhino or another software? Do you need everything to be flat?
The easiest way is to use the Align tool, but if that doesn’t work, you can create a temporary surface on the XY plane, switch to the Top view, and use the Project tool to push all the geometry onto that surface (then just delete the surface afterward).
I’ve had similar issues with drawings from AutoCAD—the Z plane sometimes gets a bit messy. Just wanted to confirm: was this generated directly in Rhino?
Hello Jesse,
thank you for your answer.
This comes out a visuarq file setup with levels and sections each arranged in a layout. I am using vaExportToDWG for each layout and i get this result.
I have many solutions to get to a drawing with all geometry in the xy plane, but i was expecting visualarq export to dwg command to at least have every curve in xy plane, otherwise the command is absolutely useless.
Hi Alex,
Please let me know what VisualARQ version you are using and share the 3dm file if it’s possible.
Thank you!
Visualarq 3.5.0.20135
Sorry i cannot share the file.
Hi Alex,
That is very frustrating, perhaps in the interim maybe use a grasshopper workflow to take that geometry and flatten it and then export it ? I checked around for some answers and the only solid solution I found was to first use make2d to flatten all the elements into a single drawing on one plane and then export that information using export selected.
Hi Alex,
I managed to reproduce the issue in 3.5.0, luckily this got fixed in version 3.5.1 which is already released, you can get it here: VisualARQ 3 - Version 3.5.1 released
I can use VA plan view and section and have 2d results. But exporting layouts used to work.
I see, thank you. i will try the new version and report back.
Though i did not think to install this in the first place, since only 3 errors are listed as fixed, and those have to do with guides.
in 3.5.1 version everything seems to be 2D. thank you.