Here's a way of having a single symbol work for both 2D and 3D.
NOTE: This only works for DataCAD 12
-Bring in the 2D and 3D symbols for a particular item (in the case a kitchen sink)
-Change the colors of all the entities for the 3D symbol to non-printing colors (pen number = 0). It helps to use a color that is a little harder to see on the screen to help to keep your drawing from looking too busy while you are working on it (if you use a black background, try using darker colors like color_144)
-Make sure materials are assigned to all of the 3D entities
-Make sure that the 3D entities are at the desired z-heights
-Make sure that all entities for the 2D symbol have a 0 height (for example z-base=0 and z-height=0)
-Place the 2D and 3D symbols on top of each other
-Save the new symbol
Now you can bring in the single symbol unexploded into a drawing and have it show correctly for 2D printing as shown in the following image:
It will also show correctly in the O2C player
NOTE: This only works for DataCAD 12
-Bring in the 2D and 3D symbols for a particular item (in the case a kitchen sink)
-Change the colors of all the entities for the 3D symbol to non-printing colors (pen number = 0). It helps to use a color that is a little harder to see on the screen to help to keep your drawing from looking too busy while you are working on it (if you use a black background, try using darker colors like color_144)
-Make sure materials are assigned to all of the 3D entities
-Make sure that the 3D entities are at the desired z-heights
-Make sure that all entities for the 2D symbol have a 0 height (for example z-base=0 and z-height=0)
-Place the 2D and 3D symbols on top of each other
-Save the new symbol
Now you can bring in the single symbol unexploded into a drawing and have it show correctly for 2D printing as shown in the following image:
It will also show correctly in the O2C player