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AutoCAD Snaps Snapping further from Point Specified

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AutoCAD Snaps Snapping further from Point Specified

Anonymous
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I have been using AutoCAD for some time. I have 2 versions at home (AutoCAD 2016 and AutoCAD 2012). At work I use AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD 2004. I also use an overlay program at work called OmniCAD which is used for sprinkler system objects.

I created a drawing in OmniCAD scaled at 3/32" and began drawing. Went great, and got it almost all the way done. I brought it home this weekend to finish it up so that it can be resubmitted. Opens up, saves, everything is great.

Except for one thing. I went to move one of the heads to it's new location while using snaps. Once I clicked the location that I wanted it to end up at, it shot down about 1/3 of the drawing more before stopping. I thought that it may have snapped to an alternate snap point by mistake as I tend to leave snaps running so I hit F3 to turn them off and then selected my points via Shift+Right click and placed the object where it needed to go, but the same thing happened.

I felt that this may be caused by drawing in full scale vs 3/32" scale so I changed it via theAnnotation Scale in the lower right and tried again. Still no dice though. I am at a loss as to how to remedy this. What should have been a simple process has turned into a much bigger ordeal.

If I have left out any information that is needed please ask as I will be trying to keep this open in the hopes that it will be answered soon so that I can get back to the project I had intended to work on. In the meantime, I will be working on another drawing.

Thank you.

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JDMather
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@Anonymous wrote:

 

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I felt that this may be caused by drawing in full scale vs 3/32" scale so I changed it via theAnnotation Scale in the lower right and tried again. ....


Well, it has been several years since I used AutoCAD, so my understanding might be faulty.  But I thought Annotation Scale was for dimensioning - not drawing.

Back when I used AutoCAD - I always drew my geometry 1:1 scale in modelspace and then dimensioned in paperspace.

Never ever had any trouble worrying about scales.  Never used snap (not to be confused with osnap).

 

Can you attach your file here,


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Sadly I cannot as the file is for a business and not something that I can share due to company policy.

I apologize, I always shorten Osnaps to snaps when I talk so I forget to use the correct term when I type it out. That was my mistake.

You are correct on the Annotation Scale being for dimensioning, but I was running out of options so I was willing to try anything. Ha ha.

I have been playing around with it some more and trying to get it figured out. I have a feeling that it is instead an issue with moving blocks (the heads are insterted as a block, but I can move each head individually without it moving all of the rest so a slightly different block). If I explode them, I can move them normally, however, there is no way to join them back correctly afterwards. Without being joined correctly, they don't get counted as heads when I move back to OmniCAD which becomes a pain having to count them manually. Ha ha.

Additionally, if I try to use Copybase and then paste a single head, I get a Proxy Information popup. I assume that after I click show Proxy Graphics, it pastes the head somewhere, but as to where, I am unsure. The heads are listed as 'ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY'.

I am currently looking to see if I can find the correct enabler as it was not automatically downloaded as it usually is.

Is there another path I can take as opposed to this in the event that it just doesn't exist? Or perhaps something I am missing?

(I know that not having the file to manipulate yourself does make this more difficult and I am sorry that the company policy makes it a little more complicated.)

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