Moving objects to Coordinates

[AJBuckers]

Hi All,

A colleague of mine is running C3D 2021 and is having trouble moving a drawing to the correct co-ordinates.

very basic process example a drawing is far away from where it needs to be so: MOVE -> select all -> select base point -> specifiy point "10,10" and everything would move 10 east and 10 north rather than to the X 10, Y 10 postion.

I've tried it on my autocad 2021 and it works as it should, is there a setting in Civil 3d that would change the way the command works? The option to move by displacement is still available so I don't think it's that.

Unfortunately my knowledge of C3D is limited at present.

TiA,

Adam.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Look at the DYNPICOORDS system variable. I think from your description that you want it to be set to 1, or absolute coordinates. When prompted for the second point of displacement it'll move to exactly those coordinates. When DYNPICOORDS is set to 0, the coordinates entered at the prompt are relative to the first point selected.

See https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Switchin... 

[AllenJessup]

Hopefully @Anonymous 's suggestion will help. To answer the underlying question. Civil 3D does not alter the basic AutoCAD Move command.

[AJBuckers]

@AnonymousThanks, that sorted it 👍