Hello,
All week I've been drawing site maps with no issue but today every line I make doesn't connect. What I mean is that normally I can connect two lines with polyline and have the option to join them together with one click, but now they just seem to overlap. This is making it very difficult to do anything, and impossible to do some things such as hashing.
Please help!
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@nick4YACU For better understanding, and maybe get further help, please upload such sample.dwg
Here is the file. I can't connect any lines, but I also tried opening another file that I worked on previously and couldn't do that either, so I believe it is some sort of setting I accidently switched on/off
If you're using Map3d post it here:
HI,
This procedure complete when you add lines, arcs, or polylines to the end of an open polyline . in your attached CAD dwg you have single polylines with closed polyline .
Yes, I have only been using AutoCAD for about a month now so I am pretty new.
I may not be explaining it properly, but basically before when I tried to connect a polyline back together, it would "snap" together with a little green box on my cursor, all I had to do was click on it. Now I do not have this option, and instead the only way to connect them is to get them close, then zoom in and manually connect each end point.
Everything worked fine before, but today when I got to work I am now unable to do this. I fear I may have simply hit a command or hotkey which is causing this issue, but no amount of googling has given me an answer
@nick4YACU wrote:
basically before when I tried to connect a polyline back together, it would "snap" together with a little green box on my cursor, all I had to do was click on it. Now I do not have this option
It sounds like you might just have turned osnaps off (F3) will get that back. Or you may have changed which osnaps are active for that you need to check your settings, type 'dsettings' and go to the 'object snap' tab I would make sure the 'perpendicular' is selected, don't turn them all on some of the settings would just add confussion.
It is not an issue with my file, as all of my previous files do the same thing now, it is an issue with a setting in my autocad. There is no way for me to get a screenshot of it working.
Before I could easily snap a polyline together, now I can't.
Say I try to draw a square with polyline. I draw the whole shape and connect the final corner, and the lines should easily snap together with one click. Now I can't connect the lines and they just overlap instead, as if they are in a different Z value
I apologize for not being able to explain it better.
Oh man, that was it! I knew it had to be a simple setting that I messed up, I just couldn't figure out how to change it. I definitely just hit f3 on accident at some point.
Thank you so much!
I had the same problem, all fixed now! Thank you so much for this solution!