AutoPLANT XM Drawing Flattener

[rwebb]

Quick question:

AutoPLANT XM Drawing Flattener. Thumbs up or Thumbs down.
The Flattener for 8.6 was inconsistant for us.
We are trying to come up with a standard for flattening drawings. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thx

[TheMonk]

We have had pretty good success with the XM flattener. The only problem we have found, it will not work on any drawing not turned square to the UCS.

[rwebb]

Thanks Monk. For us, it seems to miss lines now and then, but nothing major. 8.6 always seemed to crash. We thought of Creating a DWF, then converting it back to DWG, worked fairly well for what we tested, but seems like a workaround.

[Yo-mama]

so the XM flattener is having issues with say isometric views of drawings??? Does it seem more stable than the version in 8.6?

[TheMonk]

We've only had the XM product of AutoPlant, but from what I understand from Bentley, this problem with the Isomentric view has always been a problem.

[Yo-mama]

We are able to flatten isometric views it just has to be broke into pieces and reassembled once flattened.