Help to restore changed setting?

I am not sure what setting changed, but I ran a lisp routine to draw pipes, and since that point and time when I try and draw a polyline from a point at one level to a point at another level all I get is a line at the same elevation. Even if I am trying to end the line at the second level.

It was working before the lisp, and I found out afterwards that maybe I shouldve saved my profile first, but even that isnt helping.

Any ideas? Hopefully I have explained myself well enough.

Thanks in advance.

RW

Are you using a 3D polyline?

Just using the 'pl' command to draw the line. Worked before but not now. I used that then the xpipe lisp routing to draw a pipe around the line. Since I did that for a drawing I can no longer draw using 'pl' like I did before.

I am working out of 3d. I apologize for my lack of terminology. I have been self teaching myself over the last couple of weeks as a fill in until we find a full time drafter, so I am winging it at best.

If you are stuck in one plane could it be orthomode is enabled?

polylines will not snap to different elevations so you must have been using a 3dpline (3DPOLY) or a line, or your ucs was rotating to align with the path for the pline.

Right after I posted this after messing with it for an hour I figured out if I used the 3d polylines I would be fine. I just changed my pl to reference 3dpoly instead of the normal polylines since that is what I use the most.

It was just weird as I was using the pl button originally before the xpipe lisp and now I cannot use it. Was baffling me as to what caused it.

Thanks for the help anyways.

It was just weird as I was using the pl button originally before the xpipe lisp and now I cannot use it. Was baffling me as to what caused it.

 

Thanks for the help anyways.

If you happened to have cancelled out of the lisp command or if the lisp command crashed for whatever reason it may not have reset a variable in the drawing. Open the lisp file and have a look for a sequence something like:

(setq something (getvar "varname"))

(setvar "varname" X)

Then towards the end of the routine it should reset the original sysvar.

if the lisp file does not have an error handler the variable may not get reset on an error or a cancel.

Something else you could try is to see if the "pl" command works normally in a different drawing.