All vertices of spline = zero Zed axis?

[voltron7]

I often get contour lines from clients. Often they are good, but sometimes there are some engineer-slop splines that have each vert at a different height.
(Each vert is at it's own Zed elevation.)
Here is an image from front/side view...
Is there a quick way to "flatten" these crap lines?
I know in AutoCAD there was a command for doing this in about 1 second. Would be surprised if I have to trace over the contour in order
to get the lines flat (at zero elevation.)
I've a few scripts that help with the number of vertices, but nothing to deal with vertex heights within a spline.
TIA

[AlexP]

Select all of the vertices and scale in the Z direction to 0, I do it a couple of times as sometimes it looks like the verts are still a bit off even at 0 scale.
Then all the verts will be at the same level... doesnt help with Beziers though...

[AlexP]

Actually it does work with beziers

[voltron7]

@AlexP
Thank you so much!

[Pixelcon]

I'm incredulous there still isn't a native Max function for this...

[voltron7]

I'm often surprised when I find a simple command from AutoCAD that is non-existent in Max...AlexP's method is working nicely, though...I'll just have to try to remember this.

[tricky]

I'm often surprised when I find a simple command from AutoCAD that is non-existent in Max...AlexP's method is working nicely, though...I'll just have to try to remember this.

What's the autocad command??? I'm sure I've been looking for that for the last 15 years!

[glorybound]

it is Flatten

What's the autocad command??? I'm sure I've been looking for that for the last 15 years!

[voltron7]

Yes, "flatten" is one way, and there is also a command by typing "elevation" into command line, then enter your value, like 0. This was in Release 2004, but might still work if they haven't gone totally to button control.

[raymarcher]

I often get contour lines from clients. Often they are good, but sometimes there are some engineer-slop splines that have each vert at a different height.
(Each vert is at it's own Zed elevation.)
Here is an image from front/side view...[ATTACH=CONFIG]20093[/ATTACH]
Is there a quick way to "flatten" these crap lines?
I know in AutoCAD there was a command for doing this in about 1 second. Would be surprised if I have to trace over the contour in order
to get the lines flat (at zero elevation.)
I've a few scripts that help with the number of vertices, but nothing to deal with vertex heights within a spline.
TIA

Here you go pal:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...ten-spline-xyz

[voltron7]

Here you go pal:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...ten-spline-xyz

raymarcher, that sure looks like a great solution. Thanks a lot!

[glorybound]

Hey! I am trying to flatten a spline, but non of this works.

[glorybound]

The Glue script worked perfectly.

[mitviz]

its usually the case with alot of files i get, my only and sure solution is to send it to rhino and use project to cplane and it flattens every single thing, its full proof, in max or autocad it usually too much trouble but will look into the glue script

[super gnu]

select the spline, select all subobjects, open scale floater and right click on the spinner next to z-scale. will scale it to exactly 0. its never failed me..?