LINES ARE NOT COMPLANAR, help me

i have one file in which im working and im having problems intersecting and
chamfering the lines from previous object
with fresh drawed lines because the lines are not complanar

i dont know what i did cause i never had this problem and its driving me
nuts, does someone know how to make them
complanar .....thanx a lot

 

The word is "coplanar" -- and it simply means that some of the endpoints
have elevations other than 0. If you have Express Tools, use the FLATTEN
routine; if not, do a search for one of the several other "Flatten" routines
that are circulating.
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Hi

Another way could be, that you set your UCS Z value according to the
entity that you think make the problem --- the origine sometimes are
changed and this can caurse trouble and make the messeage you tell.

Now you don't specify exactly what command ,but if you are edditing
polylines what you shuld do , is to learn a little AutoLisp trick ;

first type "Elevation" that set the hight of Z , when that ask a new
value you type "(last(getpoint))" ------ guess you see just from the
names in the (last (getpoint)) , that you point to something to get
it's point value.
Anyway when you just typed (last (getpoint)) you type "end" so when you
point to a line the point yieled will be the endpoint of the line ,and
as it say "last" the Elevation function will recive the last of the
point information, the Z value.

Now this sound a much more trouble than what it acturly is, you just
type Elevation and ansver with (last(getpoint)) be sure to snap to the
end of the line you want to be planer with, and then nothing more
happen ------ well something proberly will happen as maby you don't get
that silli messeage again, but anyway remember to check the snap
setting to, as that can also in some situations ,snap to something not
plane with the entity you edit.
------- Acturly I made a lot of edditing where I used another option ;
you type "UCS" and ansver with "entity" , then point to the entity that
must yield it's UCS to be the current and your edditing problems are
over . Maby this is easier than with the "Elevation" function as it
cover UCS's out of the 3 tradisional ones.


P.C.

 

hmmm....i tried both and both works....but ....first i tried with
(last(getpoint)) stuff, and it worked for some time but
the same thing happened, and second time it didnt want to work anymore, but
then i did the flatten routine, and now
i think everything is OK.

only thing i dont understand ohw i did that, i never had that problem in 5
years of autocad

anyway thanks for the tips guys

 

It can happen when you insert a block with non-zero Z points, or when you
work on someone's drawing with same. The you start snapping to endpoints,
and midpoints and perp....and deeper and deeper you get into trouble. Often
you won't even realize it until you try something that only works in 2D like
PEDIT or BHATCH or BOUNDARY, etc.

Other people's drawings can be a "booby trap"...a quick way to see if there
is a problem is UCS>X>90>>, PLAN>

 

In some AutoCAD releases, it could happen merely by EXPLODEing a plain ol'
2D polyline.
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Really? Which ones? Did they take the command name a little too seriously?

 

R14 for one; I don't recall if it was a carryover from the R13 disaster.
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