dumb question?

I have a customers file & crosshairs & Ortho are set to 15 degrees... how
the hell do I get them back to real world 0 deg & 90 ???

TIA
Rob
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If the UCS icon is cranked with them, the view is skewed to the UCS. To
crank the view to the UCS use PLAN>ENTER>ENTER. To reorient the UCS to the
view use UCS>V>ENTER.

If UCS icon is skewed to the crosshairs, checkout SNAPANG. It's probably set
to 15 or 75. Set it to 0.

be cool ; )

 

snapang 0

Jeff

 

that was it! Thanks
never seen anyone mess with it before... very annoying. :O)

Rob

 

It's pretty useless for my work too. I'm not sure why anyone would use
it....

 

For one use, if you have a line at *any* angle, you can use SNAPANG to set
your cursors to that angle and then draw a line at any angle to it. When
asked for the new snapang, type END (pick end), END (pick other end) and
your cursors will align with the line.

For example, drawing a line at right angles to any other line.

 

So it's like changing the UCS and having ORTHO on, but without losing your
coordinate context?

I think I could use that....

(It's my 'dumb' day.)

 

See response to Salty. Is that why/how you use it?

 

I'm the same way but I've used UCS and F8 to do that. The absolute
coordinate context is not usually important.
I'll play with it sometime.

 

To quote the 'help' stuff:

***
Sets the snap and grid rotation angle for the current viewport. The angle
you specify is relative to the current UCS.
***

So your UCS stays as it was. Ortho operates relative to the new snapang.
Useful for 2D work, I suppose.

If you draw a line. say @1000<25, it is drawn as the 'help' says, relative
to the current UCS.

See comments by regarding text alignment.

 

Cheeky! )

 

Tom. You disappoint me!

; D

 

Nothing, if not that.