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Overview
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**Super Tools** is the home for drafting utilities that sit alongside
standard Modify commands: geometry cleanup, polyline simplification,
and (as the suite grows) best-fit lines, stationing, and similar
helpers inspired by Autodesk Express Tools and third-party toolkits
such as CadTools.

Access
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   * - Where
     - How
   * - **Ribbon**
     - Tab **Super Tools** (after **Tools**, before **Output**)
   * - **Menu bar**
     - **Super Tools** (after **Tools**; Civil / Point Cloud insert
       between Tools and Super Tools when those modules are present)
   * - **Command line**
     - Type the command name or alias (see each command page and the
       :doc:`../command_reference/01_command_reference`)

Ribbon and menu groups
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Commands are organised so related tools share a group:

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   * - Group
     - Ribbon control
     - Menu path
   * - **Cleanup**
     - **Cleanup** split button (click = default command; arrow =
       full list)
     - **Super Tools → Cleanup → …**
   * - **Polylines**
     - **Polylines** split button (click = default command; arrow =
       full list)
     - **Super Tools → Polylines → …**

New Super Tools commands are added to these groups (or new groups as
needed).  After each command lands, this chapter and the changelog
are updated.

Current commands
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   * - Command
     - Alias
     - Group
     - Summary
   * - ``FLATTEN``
     - —
     - Cleanup
     - Project selected objects (or the whole drawing) to Z = 0
   * - ``PLSIMPLIFY``
     - ``PLSIM``
     - Polylines
     - Douglas–Peucker vertex reduction on 2D/3D polylines
   * - ``PLGETZ``
     - ``PGZ``
     - Polylines
     - Sample Z from surface/point cloud on polylines and lines (multi-select)
   * - ``BESTFITLINE``
     - ``BFL``
     - Polylines
     - Best-fit 3D line through selected points/vertices (PCA)

See :doc:`02_cleanup` and :doc:`03_polylines` for full behaviour,
prompts, and notes.