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From: Michael Gibson
Hi ed, so for a simple case with just a few pieces there would be 2 main ways to do it.
#1 is like Colin writes above - use View > CPlane to set the construction plane to the center of one of your angled planar shapes. This will relocate the Top/Front/Right views to that local frame of reference and now when you export a PDF, AI, or DXF file using the Top view projection it will be a straight-down view on that particular plane.
#2 is to dissassemble your object using Edit > Separate and then use Transform > Orient to relocate each face onto the world xy plane.
- Michael
From: ed (EDDYF)
Thanks everyone!
View > CPlane on my tilted plane and exported as AI from top view. Opened the AI file in Corel Draw and have a flat, actual size outline ready to print and use as a cutting template.
Ed Ferguson
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Ed, so just for future reference the other disassembly method using Transform > Orient is pretty good too, since the orientation picker can be aligned to a surface normal for the base position and the world z axis for the target position.
That looks like this:
- Michael
From: ed (EDDYF)
Thanks Michael. Good to know.
Ed Ferguson
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