SOLPROF command

Creates hidden line representations of 3D solids in layout viewports.

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Method

Select one or more 3D solids and create hidden line representations of them. The representations are blocks.

Note: This command operates only in model space of a layout tab viewport. Use the MSPACE command to activate the model space viewport.

Note: This command does not work with any other kind of 3D entity or with 3D solids referenced externally (xrefs). BricsCAD can filter out the ineligible entities.

Options within the command

Use separate layers for hidden lines?: Determines id hidden lines are placed on a separate layer from the visible lines.

Yes: Creates two 2D blocks, one for the visible lines placed on layer PV (1) and another block for hidden lines on layer PH (2).

No

Creates one block of both hidden and visible lines on layer PV.

Note: The blocks and layers are named by the program, such as block *U3 and layers PH-88 and PV_88:

*U identifies blocks created by the program
PH is short for “profile hidden”
PV is short for “profile visible”

Project result onto plan?: Determines if the profiles are projected (if the resulting blocks are 2D).

Yes: Profile lines are projected onto the drawing. The 3D solids (1) are projected onto a plane parallel with the layout’s viewport, creating a block in 2D (2).; Note: In this image, the viewpoint has been rotated to show that the block(s) are indeed 2D.

No: No projection, the blocks are made of 3D entities.

Hide tangential edges?: Toggles the display of tangential lines.; Note: Tangential lines are used to show the transition between two faces that are curved. In a 3D shaded model, they are not needed as highlights and shadows indicate the transition. In 2D wireframe mode it can be useful to show them.