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I have been mailed some floor plans that are identified as symbols. I need to be able to trim lines, stretch etc. I tried exploding the drawings from the 3D menu, but they still can not be treated as seperate entities.

help

thanks in advance

You may need to do a zoom extents, with free zoom on or off, then use explode several times untill the cords/hints bar say there are no more symbols to explode. You may be dealing with whats called nested symbols. Symbols can be save into other symbols. So when you explode a symbol once, it may have several other symbols inside it. Let us know if this works for ya. Also make sure the explode menu is set to symbol explode.

Greetings,

If you ID them after exploding, what are they now?

If they are 3D lines, then you'll need to use the 3D Line Convert macro -- it may already be in your Toolbox or you can download it for free from DataCAD's web site.

was on symbol in the explode menu. They are still indetified as 3D lines so I will attempt to convert them to 2D after I download the Macro.

Thanks again to all who responded

Hello,

Before using the macro, you should Change\Z-Base and Z-Height to 0 -- then use the macro. That way, if any of the 3D lines were sloped, then this flattens them -- and then the macro can do it's job. (It only works on "flat" 3D lines...)