In Autodesk® AutoCAD®, there are several ways to make a flat contour from a solid: section planes, FlatShot and SolProf commands. But they are all very limited and have so many drawbacks. A>V>C> Flat (FLT) command can roll out any drawings to the plane, all drawing objects.

FLT has the following advantages and features:

• Works without preliminary preparation do not ask for anything superfluous and project everything on the XY plane directly under the place where the original object was.

• Do not clap windows, and do not open dialogues.

• It works with a lot more objects, besides 3d-Solid: Mesh, PolygonMesh, PolyFaceMesh, Surface, Region, Body, and Face will turn into lines.

• The program will design any curves on XY, both three-dimensional and flat (not aligned on XY).

• Converts exotic Polyline2d, and Polyline3d to regular polylines.

• If you accidentally scattered the texts in different planes, the program will help to transfer all annotations to the XY plane without distortion.

• The program gets inside of blocks, arrays and external references and flattens all suitable objects inside them.

• In the end, nothing should explode anymore, no blocks are created.

• It can work in the current user coordinate system UCS, and so you can easily redirect the projection to the current view or on the face of the solid.

• The results are redistributed on layers MD_Visible and MD_Hidden, but this can be turned off.

• Can immediately call the Outside Loop (OSL) program for the visible contours of each object.

• The line weight is assigned ByLayer, and not zero, as FlatShot mistakenly does.

• The program resets to zero the pseudo-three-dimensional property "Thickness" for all lines, polylines, and 2d-solids.

• The name and description of the solidus is transferred to all its contours.

• In the process of long-term work, a progress bar is shown.

• The original object can be deleted if you want it.

• You can set up to nine offset styles with different settings and then quickly switch styles directly from the command line. Or from a macro on a homemade button.

It is convenient to use this command to get layouts of rooms according to the drawings obtained by exporting from 3ds Max (from all kinds of Meshes and strange 2d-polylines).

The program can be used to prepare contours for drawing in solid - Z-twisted splines and polylines become flat and suitable for Extrude.

The program is not designed to make flat drawings from 3D assemblies of many solids. It works with each solid separately and all parts hidden behind will be drawn with visible lines. For assemblies use viewports or the _ViewBase command, not FLT.

The FLT command is part of the A>V>C> Pro package and is called by the LAY command at the end of the job, when the FLATSHOT option is configured.

To run the plugin, you will have to register account and top up your account balance or receiving bonuses.