Stuck with 3D ucs when drawing in 2D
See in the upper left of the drawing area where it says "Nascoto"? Change that to "2D Wireframe". This setting is saved in the drawing. That's why you didn't need to change anything. It changed when you opened the file.
Ed
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I can't explain the close-and-re-open-fixes-it part, but the difference in appearance is about the SHADEMODE or VSCURRENT command. Enter one of those, and set it to 2dwireframe. And make sure your drawing template files all have it set that way, for new drawings.
If you don't get a clear solution that explains why it could be happening as you describe, something could easily be made that would force that setting in every drawing you open.
@Ed__Jobe wrote:
See in the upper left of the drawing area where it says "Nascoto"? Change that to "2D Wireframe". This setting is saved in the drawing. That's why you didn't need to change anything. It changed when you opened the file.
That doesn't explain this from Message 1:
"... and if I close the first drawing and re-open it, the UCS is back to normal."
That's the part I can't figure out, if as you say it's supposed to be saved in the drawing. [It doesn't seem to be held in a System Variable, at least not one that I can find, to look it up and confirm that.]
@Kent1Cooper I can verify that its saved in the dwg by changing the vscurrent value, saving the dwg and reopening it. Its not saved a sysvar, but as a property of the viewport. A sysvar can only store one value, but the dwg has many viewports, so its saved as a property.
Perhaps the OP had a problem because they didn't save the dwg after they changed the current visual style? Or perhaps they were viewing ms from the model tab one time and from a ps viewport with different setting the next time?
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Hi,
can you please try to start AutoCAD with the /safemode switch (as described >>>here<<<).
Does this first dwg again switch to a visual style other than "2D Wireframe"
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@bianca.tardini wrote:
Thank you very much, this seems to have fixed it! I closed all the open drawings and then proceeded to re-open one: the UCS was finally normal!
But how did it switch in the first place, did I type something by mistake? I do not recall clicking in the upper left corner and selecting anything!
Besides the ways Kent mentioned, you can set it from the View tab of the palette. If you don't remember, its not possible to know what you did or didn't do. All you can do is make sure that its not set in your template so that new drawings won't be affected. Start a new drawing and check the viewport to see if it is set to a visual style other than 2D wireframe.
Ed
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