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Polyline grip editing issue

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duncan_rambley_bambley
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Polyline grip editing issue

Hi,

 

Apologies if this is a double post, but I've not been able to find a result through a search. I have the attached drawing and I'm not able to move the line horizontally using the grips at all, and I can't for the life of me work out why. Could anyone shed light onto what my issue is, please?

 

Thanks,

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Did you actually draw a PLINE in a vacuum with these aka where these deliberate choices

pendean_0-1734369740839.png

 

pendean_1-1734369899382.png

 

 

Or did you snap on a couple of objects that you removed before posting your DWG file?

Or is it from another DWG file you copy/paste in here?

Message 3 of 8

Enter the following commands:

UCS 

Ob

select PLINE

PLAN

<Current>

Now it works

paullimapa_2-1734373008982.png

 


Paul Li
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Message 4 of 8

It was an existing drawing with sensitive information. I deleted everything except the pline and purged the file, then did a save as.

 

It was originally a line, and when I used PEDIT to make a pline it couldn't be edited with the grips. If I drew a new pline in the same drawing that worked absolutely fine. There is nothing in the drawing which I can't get around, I just wanted to understand why this behaviour was happening. I tried to do the same with a different line, same result, once it was a pline I could only drag the pline in the direction it was orientated. A horizontal pline could only move horizontally, and a vertical one vertically. Hope this helps?

Message 5 of 8

That does work on that one pline. I should've said this really, but it was a very quick end of the work day post!

 

There was sensitive information in the drawing which I deleted and then purged. When I try your suggestion in the temp file I created it works fine, but when I try it in the original drawing I took it from, the view is no longer from the top down, so everything else in the drawing just looks like one long line. The line (before using PEDIT to turn it into a pline) appears to have its start and end points at 0 on the Z axis, so it is flat, right? So why can't it be edited in the same way using the grips as a normal pline which I draw can be?

 

Hopefully this is clear!

Message 6 of 8

Without your other file, we can't help much. Ask that file creator about it all, see if they can dumb-down and convert that file to 2D for your use (LT has no such tools).
Message 7 of 8

Unfortunately I can't really post the original file with all it's content. It is essentially the same file, though. As I said it was just a save as with every other thing deleted.

 

Unfortunately there's no way to identify who drew the original drawing. Quite often when a new drawing is created it's a duplicate of another drawing file to retain all the layer information, etc. So as you can imagine, these problems perpetuate.

 

Just as I was typing this response I solved my own problem. The Start Z and End Z of the line was showing 0, but with no decimal points. I set both to 1 and then back to 0 again and that seems to have solved it. It must've been ever so slightly off on the z axis.

 

Thanks all for your efforts, I might never have got to that result without asking the question.

Message 8 of 8

If you notice in the file that when it is selected, it shows a rotated UCS icon that shows Z in the X direction of the view. The object UCS is different from the view.

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