XLine Not Working Properly...sometimes

[Anonymous]

So I have read through all of the posts that I could find about the issue I am having, however I believe there's something I am missing.

The issue I'm having is when drawing an Xline is that it locks to horizontal or vertical in the way a construction line works. I almost always use the command to reference center points between 2 objects so I will run the xline command, enter into midpoint between 2 points, and after selecting the 2 points it will usually lock to horizontal or vertical. When selecting the 2 points, a point is usually selected with the nearest snap. Also, it will usually do the same when selecting any part of a wall to draw a reference line.

After reading through the other posts, it seems that turning the perpendicular snap off does solve the issue, but having to turn this on & off constantly all day isn't the most efficient. What has me believing that I'm missing something or I've accidentally changed a system variable is that for one, it works sometimes, as in about 3 times out of 10, and also I have the same version of AutoCAD Architecture installed on my home computer and I don't have the issue at all and everything works as anticipated.

I've attached a file, however I'm not sure that it will work if a system variable has changed on my end.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Problem solved. Perpendicular AND tangent snaps have to be enabled within the drafting settings. I only had the perpendicular snap enabled.

[Eelke_IBH]

Thank you from 2023. This was driving me nuts!

[ldskosana61]

I used the xline command to draw an angle line plus vertical line, then tried to trace the intersection and it won't allow or show the intersection despite using even intersection command to trace it. How do I fix the issue

[Eelke_IBH]

Check your O-snap settings and make sure both intersection and apparent intersection are turned on.

[ldskosana61]

Thank you, I did eventually manage to identify what the problem was and
where I went wrong. Fixed it and the issue sorted itself out.