column lines not exactly horizontal or vertical

Hello All,

I received a drawing from a client and some of the column grid lines are not
perfectly horizontal or vertical. The lines are off by, at most, only a
couple degrees. And each one can be off by a different amount. What makes it
worse is depending on how much my screen is zoomed in or out, the lines may
or may not visually be slanted. Has anyone automated a fix for this problem.
It would be very much appreciated. Thanks alot.

Ken

 

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To all,

Sorry about that. Is the autodesk.autocad.customization discussion group
still active? It doesn't look like anyone has posted anything on there in a
while.

 

Ken,

That's a fairly busy group... you might ned to RESET your Outlook Express.

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You may have to reset it if you use a newsreader. IExplorer right click
autodesk.autocad.customization>properties>local files>reset. They had over
20+ today.

 

yes, i would like to know how to make the lines orthogonal, also. However, I think that is just sloppy and lazy drafting.

Wally

 

ortho on
CHANGE
Select Objects <get 'em>
Select Objects <enter>
Specify change point or [Properties]: <pick where you want 'em to stop>
you're done


Message was edited by: OLD-CADaver

 

not quite. Its a lot more complicated than that. Also have to determine which end is at the correct dimension. . . or if either end is at the correct dimension.

Wally

 

It'd be easier to re-build them

 

Exactly, one wonders why everything works as well as it does with all the ignorance and sloppy and lazy work that is done. The profession employs people, who barely speak English, doing work upon which work lives depend when an seismic event occurs.

Wally McMillan
McMillan Engineers

 

I've been watching this for a couple of days and keep thinking exactly
what you said - redraw the whole da%$ thing. What a waste of time - why
doesn't the original party know enough to set ortho on in the first
place?