The H-Factor

Another one from our friend Larry Howell at L&K Fire Protection (Marion, Illinois)

If you get a background drawing that has AEC objects in it, you might find that drawing takes forever to run through the AutoCAD FLATTEN command, or never completely flattens. Larry has discovered a command that will handle it for you:

• Open drawing with objects, I had 5 floors so it worked better wblock the floors separately
• Open new Wblock drawing and enter “-ExportToAutoCad or AECtoACAD”
• Left the “filename” default and hit enter
• Made a new drawing “ACAD-*”
• Converted a lot faster than flatten, converts AEC but leaves “REGION OBJECTS” but made a good clean drawing.