topic Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly in AutoCAD Forum

Ortho Shift key not working correctly

B_Juan — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:51:07 GMT

Hello,

I'm having some trouble with ortho mode. When holding down shift key it should enable and then disable once I let go. I currently have ortho toggled off and would like it enabled when holding down shift.

Currently by default there are two shortcuts, shift and f8. The f8 shortcut does work fine. I have looked in the cui settings and both the f8 and shift shortcuts have the same options applied. After some testing, it seems to work sometimes when pushing the left and right shift keys at the same time, but it has been a bit hard to test since I only have two hands, sadly.

I know this use to work in the past but can't seem to figure it out now. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm currently on windows 10 64 bit, AutoCAD 2019.1 student version. I also tested on 2018 and it acted the same.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:13:55 GMT

Hi,

try to change your setting of sysvar TEMPOVERRIDES.

- alfred -

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

B_Juan — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:49:47 GMT

That didn't seem to work. I tried at 1 and 0.

I've found some older threads of people having a similar issue, starting to think it might be a bug with application.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

imadHabash — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:13:35 GMT

Hi,

>> .... starting to think it might be a bug with application.

yes that right it's a bug ... BUT till this moment i don't know it's related to AutoCAD or to the machine trade mark ( Dell ,Hp,...etc )

Regards,

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

john.vellek — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:18:18 GMT

Hi @B_Juan,

Does this work if you restore the CUI?

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

B_Juan — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:13:21 GMT

I have tried restoring but it is still broken.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

john.vellek — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:16:08 GMT

Hi @B_Juan,

I am sorry that didn't work. I suspect that this might be due to the laptop keyboard driver as suggested by @imadHabash. You might check your Windows control panel to see if there are any settings there that might be adjusted to allow this to work.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

B_Juan — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 05:22:09 GMT

Yes it might be. Weird how it only occurs on AutoCAD though.

I ended up just changing the shortcut to Shift+Z, which works completely fine. I have to push an extra key but I could get use to it.

Thanks for all the help!

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

manolocarenter — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 04:10:58 GMT

Can you tell us how you change F8 for shift+Z? I have tried it, but it doesn't work

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:04:34 GMT

i don't know why but that didn't work for me😢😢

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:42:09 GMT

Maybe you have isometric drafting on, then it does not work properly.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

dnorwood — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:56:53 GMT

TEMPOVERRIDES (System Variable)

It was set to zero on my machine. I set it back to 1 and now it works!

I have AutoCAD 2021

By the way, someone already wrote this but the "go to solution" link takes you to the wrong answer.

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:33:00 GMT

It works.

You can change the keyboard shortcut as: Choose CUI in the tab "Manager". In the left side list, choose Keyboard Shortcuts => Temporary override keys. in the right side list, choose Toggles Orthogonal Modes and change the Shortcut key as you want. For me SHIFT+Z is just nice

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

hariskamileris — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:23:35 GMT

Hello All,

That whole discussion is disappointing. It look like it might have to do with the computer manufacturer, HD for exemple. So no one has found an actual solution" ? Like how to disable manufacturer shift shortcut to bring it back to it's original function ?

So far I see no solution, it's a "workaround". So, three 3 years later, how to we actually solve this issue ?

Shift shortcut will not work on Autocad 2017, on certain machins and that's that ?

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

crbtov — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:29:47 GMT

Same bug in here

Cassualy with a HP Omen Laptop, nothing works

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

jonas.inta — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:35:56 GMT

thanks, that worked for me too.
back to shift to de ortho, instead of trying to remember which Fn button

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

hannah6U6HU — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:03:08 GMT

Thank you, mine started to do this recently for some unknown reason.

This solution has worked for me, thank you @dnorwood

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

bugrapuhurcu — Sun, 15 May 2022 17:08:50 GMT

It did not work for me. I believe that it is caused by computer brands. Please fix this bug. It is seen that the problem have not been solved till 2017

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

bmcglasson — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:20:55 GMT

This worked! Thanks!

Re: Ortho Shift key not working correctly

ervinmapz — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:57:13 GMT

Just turn on your polar tracking, it will solve the temporary on and off of the ortho. And you will not need to press shift anymore. (using Autocad 2021)