Peter L Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Desperation has brought me here - thanks for any help I have a drawing in which I insert a number of exploded blocks with several attributes from my custom palette. Attributes have all been created at 0,0 and positioned in place and the nested block created. Insertion is at a number of different UCS's for layout orientation. Here is the rub - after changing UCS a couple of times to print different layouts, the attributes move !!!! sometimes they all move other times a few move - its usually a couple of character spaces and more often in the same direction. Frustration is a mild word - any advice would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Dan's legs Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Your block scale uniformly? If so, try turning that off. If you're not sure how to do that: Bedit block and before you click on anything in the block editor open the properties palette. Look for a tab labeled block & the second line should be scale uniformly. Change that to NO and that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Dan's legs Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Frustration is a mild word - any advice would be appreciated Did this work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter L Posted May 20, 2010 Author Share Posted May 20, 2010 Thanks - Scale Uniformity already off so still in trouble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Be careful with your UCS's if you incline them then you get some funny things happening v's being true flat plane, circles will turn into ellipses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter L Posted May 20, 2010 Author Share Posted May 20, 2010 UCS's well I didnt see that one coming !!!! thanks - did a couple of trials and yes thats the problem alright - nasty - it seems OK while initially in the drawing but on reopening the file it all goes to custard. A single change in UCS seems to be OK but multiple saved UCS changes seem to really get attributes moving, especially noticable when a layout shows attributes that have been inserted at diff UCS settings. The question I have to ask - any known tricks - methods to minimise the effect - yea I know - dont use diff UCS. Thanks to all ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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