creating a pipe snapping to 3d points

robert06 · ‎12-10-2014

Wondering, why is Z coordinate ignored while creating pipes in edit network mode by snapping to 3d points?

robert06 · ‎12-23-2014

a screencast illustrating the problem

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neilyj666 · ‎12-23-2014

What is your OSNAPZ set to? Try it =0

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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KirkNoonan · ‎12-23-2014

You're snapping to a node. If your points are displaying at elevation 0, which is typical, then you need to use the transparent Point Object ('PO) command to snap to the point at its z elevation.

robert06 · ‎12-29-2014

Neilyj, Osnapz is 0

robert06 · ‎12-29-2014

Sorry, I did not understand using 'PO option.

The nodes (autocad points) have z value other than 0, there are no civil points initially. I would like to snap to autocad nodes (acad points, 3dpolyline vertexes, line endpoints etc) to get the pipe elevation from those points. Is it not possible?

@Anonymous wrote:
You're snapping to a node. If your points are displaying at elevation 0, which is typical, then you need to use the transparent Point Object ('PO) command to snap to the point at its z elevation.

creating a pipe snapping to 3d points

creating a pipe snapping to 3d points

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