topic Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis in AutoCAD Forum

Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:16:39 GMT

I'm using Autocad 2020 in windows 10 (or really Plant 3D, but the issues are related to standard autocad functions).

As long as i'm viewing the model at an angle, and not side/top view etc., I have always been able to draw simple lines in the z-direction using polar tracking without changing the UCS or typing coordinates, but now it will not let me.

The same goes for moving objects in z-axis.

Anyone have a solution for me?

I have tried a lot of different options and all googling just tells me to change the UCS, but that should not be necessary and makes my work a lot less efficient. I have been using Autocad for 15 years now and this haven't been an issue before.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

Patchy — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:27:31 GMT

Try OSNAPZ setting.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

pendean — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:11:24 GMT

... and PLAN command must be set to "current ucs" to draw anything in the orientation you are viewing your model.

Or do you just need to turn off ORTHO?

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

rushabhthakkar_910 — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:32:21 GMT

You are Absolutely Right.... This happened to me many times and I spent around 5 days to figure this out.... And from then onwards, I always set the UCS to the Current view in which I am Drawing and it barely takes a Few seconds... And we can resume our work Smoothly.....

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:37:13 GMT

Tried changing OSNAPZ to "1", but didn't help

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:44:35 GMT

@rushabhthakkar_910 that involves extra steps that should not be necessary, and especially since i'm disabled and that means moving my one functioning hand away from the mouse

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:48:28 GMT

My PLAN is "current UCS" and ortho is off

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

j.palmeL29YX — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:20:44 GMT

@karlg.paulsen wrote:

.. ortho is off

I think it must be ON.

And your view must mot be along the Z-axis.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

rushabhthakkar_910 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:23:20 GMT

I am Extremely Sorry after Knowing that You are Disabled... But, how can I know unless you Specify it...

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

Patchy — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:32:06 GMT

Are you sure line can be in 3d? Autocad only allows polyline or 3dpolyline to have 2 different z elevation.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

Patchy — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:33:17 GMT

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:40:00 GMT

Its not really relevant for the issue, but workarounds is more challenging for me because of that.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:44:49 GMT

Yes, lines can be drawn in 3D. I ts just recently it will not let me draw them along the z-axis. When I try it only gives me a zero length line.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:08:09 GMT

Ortho doesn't help much, and its behaving weirdly. As you can see in the gif below when i try to draw a line in z-direction it moves in the opposite direction and less than the corsor.

Same when trying to move objects

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

rushabhthakkar_910 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:42:27 GMT

Ya, I can understand that......

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:24:36 GMT

BTW this is what im trying to do. I had to download the 2018 version to demonstrate.

As you can see the line is drawn continously

And here is me trying the same in 2020 version

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

j.palmeL29YX — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:54:09 GMT

Did you get the wrong behavior (the 2nd video) in a pure AutoCAD (2000), or is this in Plant 3D?

I guess, this is one of the curiosities in Plant 3D. If so, you should ask in the apropriate forum.

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

rushabhthakkar_910 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:01:02 GMT

@karlg.paulsen wrote:
BTW this is what im trying to do. I had to download the 2018 version to demonstrate.
As you can see the line is drawn continously
And here is me trying the same in 2020 version

I Could not get what you said....??

You had to download means....?? Do you have the Software or not....?

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:47:44 GMT

The company i work for still has access to the 2018 version of Plant 3D as well, so i downloaded it just to show what i was trying to do.

But we are using the 2020 version on the project and thats where the problem occurred

Re: Not able to draw lines or move objects in z-axis

karlg.paulsen — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 08:05:05 GMT

Both videos are in Plant 3D, but i didn't expect the standard Autocad tools to work differently in Plant. Thats why i posted it here.

BTW. When i use ORTHO in a standard view (top, right, front etc.) or WCS it works as it should, but not when i'm using a custom named UCS as my project uses.