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Entities not created at the coordinates I specify

NickBrege — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:57:27 GMT

I'm having an issue of my entities not being created at the coordinates I specify in code. For example, if I create a circle entity (see code below) with a center point of 0,0,0 it is not created there, but at a coordinate of -347,-1957,0. Does anybody have any idea what might be going on here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...

Dim center() As Double = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0}
Dim circleObj As AcadCircle = doc.ModelSpace.AddCircle(center, 1.0)

Re: Entities not created at the coordinates I specify

Ed__Jobe — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:44:29 GMT

Do you have a user coordinate system in effect?

Re: Entities not created at the coordinates I specify

NickBrege — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:48:31 GMT

Not that I am aware of. How would I check something like that?

Re: Entities not created at the coordinates I specify

Ed__Jobe — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:53:15 GMT

UCSMAN will show you what UCS's have been defined and which one is current.

Re: Entities not created at the coordinates I specify

NickBrege — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:09:23 GMT

That appears to have solved it. It was set to "Unnamed" & I set it to "World" now. Thank you so much. Do you know if there is a method to set the UCS in code?

Re: Entities not created at the coordinates I specify

Ed__Jobe — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:50:39 GMT

You may need to keep the current ucs. You can translate a point from one coordinate system to another. In the Object Browser, find the TranslateCoordinates method of the AcadUtility object and click on the help button. It will explain it and there is a code sample. PS, if I solved your original question, I would appreciate if you marked it as solved.