From Old CADaver;
>set PDMODE to 3
From Tracy W. Lincoln;
>Are you on an off layer?
>SHADEMODE = 2D ?
>You are not in an isometric view (read: You are in a PLAN view)
>What is your PDSIZE set to?
I can't reproduce the problem now on my current version of the
drawing. I do however have incremental saves, every half day. I went
back to a version that had the problem, and the Points are incorrect.
I checked coordinate system of the polyline, (by changing UCS to
entity) and it was from the side view I was using, not the WCS.
Changing PDMODE (on that older version) to 3 caused the points to be
X-like (as opposed to +-like) as you would expect, but didn't change
the plane they were on... ie. they stayed on the WCS. (different
elevation than the WCS, but oriented in the same plane)
SHADEMODE was 2D
If I change to an Isometric view, I can see the points, but they were
not on the plane which they should have been created on.
PDSIZE was set to 5% of screen. They appear correctly sized... it is
only the orientation that is the problem.
I will report back when it happens again, although I don't use the
Divide command daily, so it might be a while.
Perhaps an added fact is that I generate fatal errors which average
about once a day in most of my drawings. I say average, but more
normally is 2 or 3 one day, then none for the next day or two. Of
course, there are "special" drawing that always generate the fatal
errors a few times a day. Note that this issue has been hounded to
death, thorough multiple versions of AutoCAD and multiple versions of
the OS, and multiple machines. No 3rd party stuff regularly used.
Though, it is possible that a 3rd party entity has snuck into a
drawing file or two [by being inserted from a block, etc], but of
course there is no pratical way to find them or purge them out.
So, I will just throw this point bug as "one of those things" and move
on... I have certainly spent more time on it already than I should
have.
Joe