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The BASE command / INSBASE System Variable [read about them in Help].
Kent Cooper, AIA 
The BASE command / INSBASE System Variable [read about them in Help].
Kent Cooper, AIA
I want to set this intersection of those 2 grids as a basepoint.
the big numbers next to the command shouldn't be 0,0,0?
I want to set this intersection of those 2 grids as a basepoint.
the big numbers next to the command shouldn't be 0,0,0?
@edenbU7RGS wrote:
I want to set this intersection of those 2 grids as a basepoint.
the big numbers next to the command shouldn't be 0,0,0?
Why would you assume that please? Are you confident UCSICON command set to ORIGIN for example?
@edenbU7RGS wrote:
I want to set this intersection of those 2 grids as a basepoint.
the big numbers next to the command shouldn't be 0,0,0?
Why would you assume that please? Are you confident UCSICON command set to ORIGIN for example?
@edenbU7RGS wrote:
in that case i dont care about the coordinate. just to pick the point that i will insert it to another drawing.
That's exactly what the BASE command is for.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@edenbU7RGS wrote:
in that case i dont care about the coordinate. just to pick the point that i will insert it to another drawing.
That's exactly what the BASE command is for.
Kent Cooper, AIA
I used BASE to define a base point in your sample drawing, and Inserted that into another drawing with exactly the expected result -- the point I had specified was the insertion base point used to Insert it.
Could your problem have something to do with the fact that things are drawn over 70 million drawing units away from the 0,0 origin? [Since your drawing unit appears to be a centimeter, that's over 700 kilometers! Or, it's over 1.5 times the entire east-west length of my home state of Pennsylvania.] Does it help if you Move everything closer to the origin?
EDIT: By the way, having things so far from the origin can cause other kinds of errors, too, because AutoCAD can only keep track of a certain number of significant figures for numerical values. So you should Move things closer to the origin even if it doesn't solve this problem.
Kent Cooper, AIA
I used BASE to define a base point in your sample drawing, and Inserted that into another drawing with exactly the expected result -- the point I had specified was the insertion base point used to Insert it.
Could your problem have something to do with the fact that things are drawn over 70 million drawing units away from the 0,0 origin? [Since your drawing unit appears to be a centimeter, that's over 700 kilometers! Or, it's over 1.5 times the entire east-west length of my home state of Pennsylvania.] Does it help if you Move everything closer to the origin?
EDIT: By the way, having things so far from the origin can cause other kinds of errors, too, because AutoCAD can only keep track of a certain number of significant figures for numerical values. So you should Move things closer to the origin even if it doesn't solve this problem.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@edenbU7RGS wrote:
...i've attached the etransmit file.
Thanks for sharing your file: this is the "origin point" in the DWG in your ZIP file
Where do you actually want your "origin point" to be please? I assume somewhere near here
Let us know.
@edenbU7RGS wrote:
...i've attached the etransmit file.
Thanks for sharing your file: this is the "origin point" in the DWG in your ZIP file
Where do you actually want your "origin point" to be please? I assume somewhere near here
Let us know.
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