topic Re: Absolute Coordinates not working in AutoCAD Forum

Absolute Coordinates not working

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:20:58 GMT

About half the studens using Autocad 2016 are having the same problem - they select absolute entry but when they enter 2,2 it starts at 0,0 and when they enter a second set of coordinates it does not move. I have tried to see what is different in settings but cannot find why it will not work.

Trisha Bossio tbossio@cisnd.ca

Re: Absolute Coordinates not working

Patchy — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:25:32 GMT

Try F12

Re: Absolute Coordinates not working

pendean — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:25:09 GMT

So teach them to get in the habit of actually typing what you want to instruct AutoCAD, instead of hoping what you partially typed is correct.

#2,2 or #0,0 tells AutoCAD you want the absolute cooridnate: the trigger is #.
@2,2 is for relative coordinates, the trigger is @

Simply typing 2,2 eaves is to a variable setting in the file to determine, and who has time to remember the name of yet another obscure variable in AutoCAD.

Re: Absolute Coordinates not working

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:20:56 GMT

type dynpicoords on the command and change the value from 1 to 0. Fixed

Re: Absolute Coordinates not working

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:19:07 GMT

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE ANSWER...