We upgraded two weeks ago to 2013, we have about 10 users give or take there were a few hiccups as usual but business surging ahead as normal.
Excluding THE HORROR this afternoon of finding that all of your work seems to be upside down ... at first i thought the youngster who had a problem had done something "special" with his view but when View\3d Views\Plan Views\World UCS returns you to the bottom looking up at the from world hell and not down from heaven alarm bells ring.
So I’m in the WCS for sure I change the view and not the UCS to top... it now says I’m in a different coordinate system, more panic ensues. Now at this point my stress level might have been clouding my normally sharp mind, I thought that rotating the view, did not affect the UCS?
After playing with the view cube I managed get my drawing looking from the top down, in the WCS expect now all my models are mirrored. Wait I have a brilliant idea! Let’s not wildly panic il upload my model over Google earth to check its defiantly in the right spot…. Right let’s get on with some serious panic.
I'm sure you can imagine the calm relaxed mood and discussions that ensued after even suggesting that approximately 800 man hours have been spent hard at work modelling upside down, after all we are all very bright and qualified people. Even still it’s very possible that all our plans are in the wrong place. That better yet any work that was done of those coordinates might also be rubbish, maybe we will get discount on the drill program for doing it a second time? Should I keep looking for a solution or a new job? I don’t remember playing with any coordinate systems on the template but as the vault admin it must have been me!
I did find a solution; I have linked it to the post. It would *seem* we don’t actually have a problem, that seeing my plans mirrored in WCS was simply a bonus illusion from my good friends down at Autodesk, just a silly setting or perhaps i just need glasses
However after this afternoons harrowing experience, I’m still left very confused, with many questions.
Is it just the view cube that is broken? Or have I just lost my marbles?
Can someone clarify what the difference is between setting the coordinate system in the drawing, which we had done correctly to the geographic location? In the past i had only set geographic location to play with things like daylight systems.
Why is that when I re-apply the geographic location that the error does not come back I’m still looking confidently down on my model and not up?
Is it not also silly to be able to set the coordinate system for Australia, and yet have your geographic location in America?
How is it that in a drawing with the geographic location i can have view cube north point not pointing directly upwards but my Y axis in the WCS system is? Is this affecting my northing and easting’s numbers or just the view cube?
Now if in the same drawing make the north point directly upwards on the view cube my model a topo is now clearly at a funny angle, yet if I reference this with vault into a drawing with an identical topo where i have removed the geographic location, before building the topo so north is up the page it appears where I think it should be and not at a funny angle, yet in the orginal model, its still clearly at and angle, in the WC despite both bieng in the same cordinate system.
Am I weird in thinking the one my civil software should do IS CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE WCS AND CORDINATE SYTEM? You could even leave UCS I really could manage without it.
Hope i have made sense and avoided the rant, id still love some more assurnaces or clairty if any one can offer them, when i say im sure where right tomorrow ... i actually need to be sure.
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