Flatten

Flattens 2D objects with thickness and allows to convert splines to polylines.

Accessing the Command

command bar: flatten

menu bar: Modify | Flatten

toolbar: Modify |

: flatten

Prompts you in the command bar:

ELevation/EXplode/<Select entities>: (Choose one or more entities.)

Entities in set: 1

ELevation/EXplode/<Select entities>: (Choose more entities, or press Enter to end entity selection.)

The selected entities are flattened.

Command Options

Option	Description
Select entities to flatten	Chooses the entities to be flattened. This command resets the thickness to 0. Thickness is a property of arcs, circles, points, polylines, 2D solids (planes), single line texts and traces.
New UCS elevation	Specifies the elevation for the flattened entities. The elevation and thickness can be changed with the Elev command.
Explode	Allows compound entities to be exploded.

Related Commands

Elev - sets the thickness and elevation of entities.

FlatShot - creates a hidden line representation of all 3D solids in model space as a block or a new drawing.

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

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

Solprof - creates a hidden line representation of 3D solids in a layout viewport.