Block's Internal base point - Z-Value

[jgray]

Good morning everyone,

I have received a drawing from a client that is made up of multiple blocks. The block for some reason when they were created have the insertion point Z-Value not currently at zero. I don't want to adjust the X,Y position of any of these block, however i was hoping for a routine that would look at all the block and change their insertion point z-values to zero. Then once that is done i can set all of the block insertion points to zero and then that would flatten the drawing.

Example:
Block made if it's base point at 2,3,12

When this block is inserted at a zero insertion it is 12 units in the air.

Solution:
adjust the base point to be: 2,3,0
Then i can set the insertion point of all blocks z-value to "0" to basically flatten the blocks in the drawing.


Thank in advanced everyone,
John Gray

[Tharwat]

Hi John,

If you have the Express Tools installed with your AutoCAD then you can find the flatten command available to use otherwise its somehow easy to write a few lines of codes to replace Z coordinates with zero.

Good luck.