Problem with Area and not coplanar points
@tomislav_vargek wrote:here's the file, I've tried everything..
Your content is not all on the same plane: it is spread out across Z direction. Only zooming in and out is never going to show that correctly
I suspect you are selecting objects from many plane, aka not coplanar.
[The numbers don't look so extreme that this would be the problem, but I'll ask anyway:]
Could it be the distance from the origin? AREA picking in empty space closer to the origin seems to work. Moving it all closer to the origin, or Copying all the content out to and pasting it into a new drawing closer to the origin, seems to let it work. [FLATTEN doesn't fix it, for me.]
But as large as your distances from the origin are, I wouldn't expect that to be the reason. People come here with far-from-the-origin issues when things are at distances like 10 to the 14th power away, but you're nowhere near that. But try it -- do you really need to be 600000 units away?
@pendean wrote:.... Your content is not all on the same plane: .....
That doesn't explain the fact that an AREA command gives not-co-planar complaints even when just picking spots in empty space [after the second one], unrelated to any object(s). Even after FLATTENing, even ensuring all Layers are thawed and on, even after ensuring it's in the World Coordinate System and PLAN view, even with running Osnap off so it won't be snapping to something unseen. That's the big puzzler to me, and why I raised the distance-from-the-origin question, grabbing at straws.
@tomislav_vargek wrote:...and Area always returns no planar on third point... ...
That is likely to happen if your points are like these for example, but your posted DWG file does not clearly show (at least to me) where you are clicking. Why not check your selections locations for your self by drawing lines between your points selections then rotate your UCS
@tomislav_vargek wrote:like i've mentioned, even selecting EMPTY SPACE returns error, it's like acad's 'subconsciously' osnaping to something..it's weird, like there's irregularly shaped bubble in which it doesn't work
How do we recreate that
And as noted by others, do you really need your content to be so far away from 0,0,0 (which can cause issues for some users except I cannot reproduce them)?
Also, your DWG files units are mm, but you seem to have an override to fake it to be meters (in other words, your drawing is incorrectly scaled by 1000x)
@pendean wrote:.... How do we recreate that ....
Well, I went to make a little demonstration video, to show what they described in action, but today I am able to use AREA by picking in open space, normally. I was not able to do that yesterday -- I would pick two points, and on picking the third it would complain about non-coplanar-ness, and the point would not be registered in the command, and it would prompt again. Same everything today [AutoCAD version, operating system, even browser, even re-downloaded the original drawing], but now it's working -- I can't imagine why the difference. That doesn't help to solve their problem, of course, but I definitely had the same problem yesterday....
