How to turn off automatic ortho mode

[Anonymous]

When I'm rotating the view in 3D modeling the system automatically turns on ortho mode. How can I change this setting? I rarely use ortho and it's frustrating to have to turn polar back on every time I rotate my view! Please help!

[natasha.l]

Hello @Anonymous, 

Have you tried the below steps & Ortho still turns on? What exact steps do you take when this happens? What version of AutoCAD are you using? 

There is more then one way to turn off Ortho mode, have you tried Pressing F8, or click the Ortho button on the status bar.  Find or use the System variable ORTHOMODE & set to 0. 

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[S.Faris]

Open your default Autocad Template file (For Example: acad.dwt) turn off the ortho in this file. Save and overwrite the old file. This method can be used for snap,grid etc too.

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[natasha.l]

Hello @Anonymous, 

Just checking in with you, hope you were able to resolve this.

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[Anonymous]

Why should something so basic be so insanely difficult to do????  It's a shame that autocad dominates the market like it does otherwise no one would use it, if it was (say) a car who in their right mind would drive one? It's an absolutely **** product which is supported by inane closet nerds who think themselves priests who never see the light of day or work in the real world. 

[RobDraw]

Turning off ortho is quite easy.

The complaint department is down the hall and to the left.

Good luck!

[pendean]

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[msrmanag]

In fact, I have a kind of the same issue. Yes, you can easy to push F10 or F8, or push the button on the toolbar, or even turn ORTHOMODE to zero value... But! For example, after I copied something in my model, this **** turns on again. And I have to push F8 again and again because I'd like to use Polar Tracking instead of Othomode. So, the question still is open. Why this is going on. It continues even after I installed the latest version of AutoCAD...

@RobDraw @natasha.l 

[RobDraw]

Your command history should tell you what is happening. If you can't figure it out from there, post a screenshot of your command history immediately after ortho is turned back on. This is not normal behavior, so it's likely it's something on your end.

[msrmanag]

It's not a screenshot but, anyway, you can see the command story. The screenshot command doesn't work. Probably I have to restart the comp.
Also, you can see the turned-on ORTO at the toolbar. It happened right after I added the leader to the Mtext. But one command back the Polar Tracking was turned on...
Maybe the problem with using a custom toolbar. But I've asked my colleagues. First, nobody cares because they like to use ORTO turned on. Second, nobody knows why it happens on my computer. 

[RobDraw]

It appears that you may have a custom leader command that turns off ortho for the leader line and turns it back on for the landing. Do you not see that?

[msrmanag]

Yes, I saw it already. How can I fix it, that after the command is done the Orto turned off again? I didn't make this custom command, as I wrote above, we use the custom toolbar that someone made some time ago. I'd like to get some guidelines or references to read and learn about how I can fix it.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@msrmanag wrote:

.... How can I fix it, that after the command is done the Orto turned off again? I didn't make this custom command....

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If you have the file that defines that custom command, and if it's an AutoLisp file [not compiled into something uneditable], then it should be easy to fix -- it's quite common [in well-written routines] to save the Ortho setting [as well as others, such as Osnap modes, the current Layer, etc.] before starting the work of the command, and restore whatever it was at the end, and even to ensure that it's restored even in the event of an error crashing the routine.

[pendean]

Post the code to your customization and someone here can help you edit it.

[msrmanag]

All right! I found how I can do that. Just left to learn a bit about the syntax of the macro. 

Thank you all! 

[jamessL7V66]

I just got AutoCAD 2023

I have to turn off the ortho mode every few minutes.

It comes right back on after a few actions.

What's a "default AutoCAD Template file" ?

I can open my electrical designs.

Thank you.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@jamessL7V66 wrote:

... ortho mode ... comes right back on after a few actions.

What's a "default AutoCAD Template file" ? ....

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After a specific action, or after any actions?  That is, when it comes back on, what did you just do, and is it that particular thing [or something from a limited set of things] that always triggers it, or can it be anything?

You can find the default AutoCAD Template file with this at the command line:
(findfile "acad.dwt")

That will return a file path along with the name.  You'll need to direct the Open dialog box to the right file type to see it:

Open that, change settings, save it still as the same file name and type.  But that won't address the coming-back-on-while-drawing issue -- it will only determine what the settings are in new drawing that you start using that template.

[pendean]

Also, please post/share with us a screenshot of your ABOUT command pop-up.