Isometric grid Lines and ortho command

Isometric grid Lines and ortho command

gsalmon
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Isometric grid Lines and ortho command

gsalmon
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Hello

Can anyone tell me why the following is happening. When trying to draw a line, staring on a grid point with snap on and inputting a length  for this line to follow with ortho on, why does the line end up veering off the grid. In the screen shot I attached, this is an 8" long line with the grids initially set at 1/4" with a major line spacing of 4. The line does not follow the grid.Isomiss.png

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dbroad
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With snap mode set to isometric, the allowable directions for drawing are defined by isoplane. Your image shows isoplane left.  Use F5 to switch isometric planes. (These are virtual, not actual planes).

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Kent1Cooper
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If you turn .BLIPMODE on, so you get evidence of where you actually picked, and start a Line on a Snap location like that, does the resulting blip sit on the grid intersection as expected, or is it also off a little?  [Not that I know what to suggest, in either case....]

 

[I was tempted to suggest that maybe your ELEVATION setting was other than zero, but that could be relevant only if this were an isometric-direction view  of an orthogonal-grid drawing plane, so never mind.]

 

EDIT:  I was getting the same thing [Acad2019], but accurate at the origin, and "drifting" farther off, in the X direction only, as I got farther from the origin.  If your image is taken from somewhere in positive-X-coordinate territory, that's the same kind of drift I got -- Snapping locations accurate in the Y direction, but at X coordinates a little closer to the origin than the grid points are.  BUT after changing Snap and Grid size settings a few times, now it isn't doing it any more.  I have no idea what made the difference.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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