To Move Blocks to a Surface Level

Use the Move Blocks to Surface command to manipulate reference object block data. You can use the reference object block data to define a surface. Moving blocks to a surface level can also be useful for visualization of multi-view block objects.

Tutorial Exercise: Moving Multi-View Blocks to a Surface

  1. Select a surface. On the Surface tab, click Surface Tools panelMove Blocks To Surface Find.
  2. If the drawing contains more then one surface, from the Select a Surface dialog box, select the surface or click to pick the surface manually.
  3. In the Move Blocks to Surface dialog box, select the Block Reference objects or click to select the block reference objects directly from the drawing.
  4. Click OK.

Each selected Block Reference object is moved from its current level to the level of the surface at the object insertion point.