UCS ALIGNMENT

[Anonymous]

Okay, I have been working with AutoCad for almost as long as I can remember. But recently have madee the jump from 2012 to 2016. When Solid Modeling in 3D my UCS now wants to automatically align with planes of parts rather than what I angle have rotated it. For example, I have a few parts that can make a box out of 3/4" material. I create a side panel, then I prefer to rotate my UCS on Z at a 45deg angle, and mirror that side panel to create my front panel at the angle it should fall on. When selecting my base point, my UCS seems to have a mind of it's own, and tries to align to a face of my solids instead of staying on entered UCS angle.

This drives me nuts !

Any help would be appreciated !

James

[Patchy]

Could it be UCSFOLLOW ?

[Anonymous]

it's not my view that changes, just the UCS somehow wants to align to a face of a 3D object. Make a 24" X 36" rec. Extrude it 3/4" of an inch. Now the way I go about rotatting in 3D is now enter "UCS", then enter "X", hit the Enter button to select the 90deg default value. Now we are going to enter "UCS" again, enter "Y", then Enter button again to select the default 90 deg rotation. Now lets try and rotate the part 90 deg. Depending on what base point you select on the part, the UCS will change. I want it to stay put on the parameters I set it on.

James L.

[massimo.corradi · Accepted solution]

What you are looking for is Dynamic UCS (F6) which can be also found in the status bar or toggled with UCSDETECT.  In combination with PRESSPULL it allows you to model solids an a way similar to sketchup.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the help,

I just figured it out.

UCSDETECT (System Variable)

Switching it from it's default value of "1" to "0"