Flatten

Works with Bricscad (Windows) Classic, Pro and Platinum, Bricscad (Linux) Classic and Pro

Flattens 3D objects with thickness.

Accessing the Command

command bar: flatten

menu bar: Modify | Flatten

toolbar: Modify |

: flatten

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select entities to flatten: (Choose one or more entities.)

Select entities to flatten: (Choose more entities, or press Enter to end entity selection.)

New UCS elevation <0>: (Specify the elevation.)

Command Options

Option

Description

Select entities to flatten

Chooses the entities to be flattened, usually 3D ones.

This command resets the thickness to 0; it does not work with hatch patterns, 3D mesh, and 3D solid models.

New UCS elevation

Specifies the elevation for the flattened entities.

The elevation and thickness can be changed with the Elev command.

Related Commands

Elev - sets the thickness and elevation of entities.

Section - creates 2D region slices of 3D solid models.

SolidEdit - creates 2D entities from 3D solid models.

All 3D drawing commands.