UCS problems

[ESchomberg]

Please help!!!! I have been doing drawings for a year now in a repetitive manner using all of the same commands with no issues. Now all of a sudden I am having major issues with commands that have never given me problems before. I am just about convinced that (playing around with the UCS, I have accidentally sabotaged myself. I feel like I have assigned myself a UCS by accident and called it "WORLD" trying to get back to the World coordinate system).

One of my fellow cad guys told me, I believe (if I am correct) that "if there is a square around the X-Y icon then you are in the UCS" Well there is a square around my X-Y icon and I have no idea how to get my drawing back to normal!!!

Please look at my drawing. In model space I have drawn some line work that looks perfectly normal but when I (twist) align my view in paper space (like I have done hundreds of times before with no issue) the line work goes crazy!!!!!!!

Someone please help, I am desperate to understand this, otherwise I can't even draw surveys anymore.....

[Joe-Bouza]

Try typing PLAN W enter

[ESchomberg]

Tried that, guess it is something else. My line work is separating when I twist my view. I don't get it

[ESchomberg]

This program was made to aggravate the crap out of me. It looks like it has something to do with mvsetup even though I have been using this with no problem. Why all of a sudden do I have a problem?

[ESchomberg]

I do not get it. My line work moves and separates from each other when I zoom in and out, but when I print it from a PDF file it prints fine.

[Joe-Bouza]

Sounds like a video issue. Bottom right on task bar turn off the display acceleration.

As for ucs, especially with c3d, osnaps can effect the end result and a visibility of objects. Specifically, If xy have a different z you ucs plane will be tilted and this will distorts text, dimension,hatches, line work etc...

For surveyors and civil engineers 99.99% of the time you want to view the plan from the top. So make sure your ucs is still using “Top” view, sections and profiles with application tools hovering over the in canvas icons top left of the screen will verify if you are in top view or not.

Rotating views this is been a hit debate for years and I’m not getting into it but will state that Civil3d application tools that create views do not use dview twist.

So here is what I do:
Create a view port and center the plan in the vport and set scale: all in world ucs , North pointing up.
Lock the vport, and rotate the viewport in paperspace however is desired.

No ucs , no dview, no twisting .

[ESchomberg]

Thank you Joe, I don't know for sure if I am out of hot water yet but my line work is not going wacko now (that is a good thing). The only thing I noticed is the cursor cross hairs and the X/Y icon lines are a bit jagged. Also the point numbers, descriptions and elevations did not rotate, so they are at a northeast angle.

That graphics "hardware accelerator " that I turned off, I am just curious if it is typically suppose to be off? or somehow maybe I accidentally turned it on?? But that has definitely appeared to fix my major issue so far.

I am slowly learning, I suppose that when this program throws you a curve ball is when you really start learning new things even though it is nerve racking.

[ESchomberg]

I have noticed some oddities in behavior when I am picking and moving stuff since I turned off hardware accelerator but it may be that I am just not use to it

[ESchomberg]

Hey Joe, I have to be honest. It does seem to correct my linework with the hardware acceleration off but I do not like the functionality of it in other aspects. So I have to look at this as a temporary fix but don't believe it has fixed the root of my issues.

[Joe-Bouza]

Now go to window>>my computer>>properties >>advance settings>> best performance

[Joe-Bouza · Accepted solution]

The hardware accelerator is a hit or miss with you video card. I believe it is intended for high end rendering

[jmayo-EE]

One of my fellow cad guys told me, I believe (if I am correct) that "if there is a square around the X-Y icon then you are in the UCS"

You should not listen to this person. The box at the origin of the UCS Icon means you are in World coordinates. If you do not see the box you are in a UCS.

[ESchomberg]

I apologize, I probably got it backwards. He probably told me that square means WCS.... I am going to check in to seeing if something is wrong with my video card

[Pointdump]

Joe,

"Now go to window>>my computer>>properties >>advance settings>> best performance"

I got under the hood with that one and scraped my knuckles big time!

Dave

[Joe-Bouza]

LOL

Hi Dave

I guess I left a little digging out. It siply turns off a bunch of extraneous windows animation, etc

[ESchomberg]

I did that, and it made my drawings look really bad. But it could be because I had not updated my video card driver yet.

[BushW]

Hello @ESchomberg

I'm just checking in to see if you need more help with this. Did the replies of @Joe-Bouza provided work for you?

Please hit the ‘Accept as Solution’ button if/when relevant so, that others can more easily benefit from the information and thank you for doing so. 

Best Regards,

Wendell

[ESchomberg]

Dave, did that help your graphics? It made mine kinda go haywire

[Pointdump]

Hi Erik,

"Best Performance" changed EVERYTHING on my computer. (We're talking Beyond All Recognition) I tried returning to "let Windows choose" but all my original settings are gone forever. I was never able to get my system back to what it was. I can live with most of the changes, like selection colors, title bar fonts, etc., but DANG! I wish I never went down that rabbit hole.

As for graphics, I never had any problems before, so I didn't see any difference under "Best Performance".

Dave

[Pointdump]

Erik,

I had to abandon "Best Performance". In that mode, you can't make a ScreenCast.

Dave