Osnap box snaps to a ghost point!! 2015/2014LT

[Anonymous]

I have a file done in Civil3D from a surveyor. Ill call this file SURVEY.

Created a new file, in 2015LT, called BASE, and xrefed SURVEY inserted at 0,0.

Created another new file called DEMO, and xrefed BASE, inserted at 0,0 (with the nested SURVEY file).

In the DEMO file, when I snap to an endpoint of an object, the snap box finds an endpoint that is 5 ft off 

from the actual endpoint of the object. It snaps to a location where there is no object (on screen) but it is telling me,

this is the endpoint. It does this for center, mid, intersection, etc.

This only happesn when snapping to an xref'd object...not newly drawn objects in the DEMO file...and happens in paper and model.

This does not happen in the BASE file, nor the SURVEY file. It happens on other computers in 2014 and 2015LT.

It is kinda hard to draw a line to an actual object point visually, without the osnap. What could be causing this?

[Patchy]

Try OSNAPZ

if it doesn't work, ETRANSMIT and post your zip file.

[Patchy]

Use World UCS, most likely UCS got rotated as seen here when snap to endpoint.

[Anonymous]

The UCS was reset to World with no change.

Turns out the Units was set to inches (unknowingly)..should be feet. When the xref was inserted had to scale the xref by a factor of 0.083

Well, if you put too many 3's in there it changes the the scale slightly.

Autocad was snapping to a coordinate in the xref, that was different then the coordinate in Model space, so it was not snapping to

the object endpoint on screen.

Thank you for your reply.