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ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:19:14 GMT

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID! BUT now all of a sudden all of my files...all of my drawings...have a 2" thickness (so basically all my 2d drawings are now 3d. Even older files that I KNOW were finE. Its telling me it has to be a setting in the program itself but I'm not sure. PLEASE HELP!

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

imadHabash — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:29:14 GMT

Hi,

Would you post and attache here some of these 2'' lines as CAD file?

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Patchy — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:32:27 GMT

Type in THICKNESS use ZERO?

Open your .dwt and fix it too.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:39:19 GMT

I've attached a segment of one of my plans to show you. These all used to be 2D flat lines. EVERY file I open is doing the same thing. Even files I haven't opened in years.

I can't select EVERYTHING in all my files and change to 0. It's going to crash.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:41:51 GMT

Welcome to these Forums!

If this is happening to newly-drawn objects, you must have somehow gotten your THICKNESS System Variable set to 2. Type THICKNESS and tell it to use 0, or type in (setvar 'thickness 0).

Are you running any custom-defined commands that could include a change of that setting? It's saved independently in each drawing, so if it happens to newly-drawn objects in existing drawings when you open them, and you haven't run any custom commands that might be setting that, then there must be something like an ACADDOC.LSP file containing something that is doing it for you. Look for the file location with (findfile "acaddoc.lsp"), and open it in Notepad and search for any reference to Thickness. Or in the APPLOAD dialog box, look at what's listed [if anything] in the Startup Suite contents, and if anything is there, investigate those files, too.

If, however, things in existing drawings that were not thick before are turning out to have thickness just by virtue of getting into the drawing, and it's not only newly-drawn things, then I don't have any ideas other than the possibility that someone is playing a prank on you. But if they are, it should be found by the investigation mentioned above -- it would presumably be something like a CHANGE or CHPROP command assigning a Thickness of 2 to everything in the drawing. It could also be done with AutoLisp code that would include something like (ssget "_X" ... ) to find everything, then any of a handful of ways it could force thickness on things. But the word "thickness" [in any case combination] should be in there somewhere to find.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

imadHabash — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:02:35 GMT

Hi,

I suggest to use QSELECT command as the image below settings

after finish previous command directly go and from Proprieties dialog (Ctrl+1) go to Thickness and change it. see below image

repeat previous action with Polylines to finish the issue.see attached CAD file.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:01:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I've attached a segment of one of my plans to show you. ....

I can't select EVERYTHING in all my files and change to 0. It's going to crash.

It turns out to be not everything. The A-FLOR-CASE Layer doesn't seem to have been affected, and the A-WALL-PATT Layer has some things with 2" thickness but some 0". Not that it solves your problem to know that.... But it makes some of my previous suppositions less likely.

I wouldn't think it would crash anything to just do:

CHPROP ALL [another Enter] T 0 [another Enter]

but of course you'd rather find out what's causing it, rather than fix it in every drawing you open.

Can you post some pre-existing drawing that you have not yet opened since you noticed this problem? If others open it and everything has 0 thickness, but you then [after posting it] open it and the problem is there, then it has to be something caused upon opening, by ACADDOC.lsp or a Startup-suite file or the like [another possibility I didn't think of before is a .MNL file].

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:15:16 GMT

@imadHabash wrote:

....

I suggest to use QSELECT command as the image below settings

....

repeat previous action with Polylines to finish the issue.see attached CAD file.

And also [in the case of the example drawing] with Circles, and potentially other kinds of things in other drawings....

The unfortunate thing is that you can't select multiple entity types at one shot in QSELECT by Thickness, but need to narrow it down to specific kinds separately. But you can find them all at once, with the FILTER command, or this way:

(sssetfirst nil (ssget "_X" '((39 . 2.0))))

then change the 2 in the Thickness slot in Properties to 0.

However, that's a workaround, and doesn't get to the cause of the problem as they described it. And if there may sometimes be anything with undesired thickness that isn't exactly 2 units, it won't find those.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

imadHabash — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:19:51 GMT

>> but of course you'd rather find out what's causing it, rather than fix it in every drawing you open. <<

Yes i agree with you..knowing the reason is more important than finding a solution especially if there is a lot of infected drawings.

regards,

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:32:35 GMT

Thanks for your suggestions. The CHPROP seemed to help the file I was in (as long as i didn't have any blocks in the dwg). Useful so I can keep working but figuring out the CAUSE is definitely important to me. I recently had a trojan on my computer...I'm wondering if it did something. I cleaned my computer of it but it has me wondering.

I scanned the .lsp and .mnl files but didn't come up with anything. I'd love to try and see about posting a file that I haven't opened yet. I work alone so I have no other computers to try it on.

I'm also wondering if i should uninstall/reinstall autocad.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

john.vellek — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:41:05 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

it is easy to Reset Settings to Default which will bring AutoCAD back to original settings.

Ho to Windows-Start-Programs-Autodesk-AutoCad 20xx and select Reset Settings to Default

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:46:20 GMT

Here is a file I haven't opened yet. Can you see for me if the lines come in with a thickness?

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Patchy — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:59:29 GMT

Yes

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:15:55 GMT

was that the only one? wondering if it was a fluke object.

ARGH! This is MADDENING! I reset autoCAD to default settings but its still happening. One of my files was fine..so I had hope. So many others are effected. Now I'm scared to open more.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Patchy — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:31:49 GMT

It's a block (Toilet) and only one in this drawing.

Reset to default probably doesn't do any good, it reset but will not delete the extra added files acaddoc.lsp or arx, vlx.......that makes the virus spread around.

Uninstall is a better way.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:41:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

.... Now I'm scared to open more.

One last thing you might risk, since the posted drawing gives a means of comparison -- open that same drawing yourself, in which for us there are only the few nested Lines inside a Block definition that have thickness, and see whether, when you open it and before you do anything else in it, more things come out having thickness. If so, there's no question that it's being brought about in the process of opening, and is not initially inherent in the drawing [and therefore presumably wasn't already in other drawings you've had the problem with, before you opened them]. At least determining that would narrow down the possible causes.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:50:52 GMT

That file when i opening it was pretty much okay which is strange. Every other file has been an issue. Maybe because it was such a simple file. Maybe its blocks or dims that i'm inserting that causes it? I'm attaching another old file for you to try and open. See how this one is.

I REALLY APPRECIATE all the help you guys are giving me.

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:02:54 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

.... I'm attaching another old file for you to try and open. See how this one is. ....

That one has 1421 objects with thickness greater than 0 [found via FILTER]. Six Circles are at 2", and the rest are Lines and Polylines whose thickness varies. That suggests that it's not necessarily in the process of your opening it, unless you had actually opened it after this problem arose but presumably before you noticed it was happening. But you could test again by now opening it yourself, and see whether the number of things with greater-than-zero thickness is more than what I found.

As with your first drawing, there are also a lot of things without non-zero thickness [e.g. again the casework Layer].

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:01:31 GMT

what the HECK!!

Re: ALL MY LINES IN MY 2D DRAWINGS NOW HAVE A 2" DEPTH (THICKNESS).

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:06:18 GMT

Could this have something to do with a setting in my layers or lineweights? Would that carry across all files like this? Strange how some lines are effected but not all. If i draw NEW lines in a drawing they DO NOT come in with a thickness.