hidden lines snapping to a corner?

hey all,

sorry if this is an rookie question, but i am very new to autocad and i am trying to duplicate a template in my text book. (Yes, i'm an old new student). I have a drawing that i am trying to add a hidden line to and when i pick my start point and then select my second point, the line will snap to the nearest corner instead of staying where i put it. Do i have a setting wrong? if you need more information please ask. Like i said im new to Autocad and may not have my terminology right.

Do you have ortho on, snaps, snap to grid?

Put a screen shot up, so I can see your settings.

i cant do that right now, my laptop is put away. My instructor isnt very insightful when it comes to teaching the basics, in my opinion. I will have a screenshot of the drawing put up tonight when i get home. If you want any other info, just let me know.This sight is pretty awesome so far as i have seen. Im checking out the tutorial videos right now. Thank you for your prompt reply. I appreciate it

If you go through those tutorials, you will have your problem sorted, most likely.

It's amazing how many students have such not-so-kind words about their instructors. Do we need a better calibre of people teaching AutoCAD?

Maybe this will help http://www.screencast.com/t/VdPkMWx2sSp

It's amazing how many students have such not-so-kind words about their instructors. Do we need a better calibre of people teaching AutoCAD?

I am sure all of the AutoCAD instructors are top notch. Why most of them have a Masters Degree and several cad certificates. Least that is what I was told when I was unemployed and looking for work. There were several places looking for instructors, all of them told me I was not qualified, without asking me a single question about AutoCAD.

It's amazing how many students have such not-so-kind words about their instructors. Do we need a better calibre of people teaching AutoCAD?

yes.......

i figured it out with everyones help and suggestions....i went to the Object Snap button, went into settings and in 2d snap i unchecked both boxes at the top of that dialog box.

My instructor is a very smart man. However, he is foreign (nothing wrong with that)and his broken english in a teaching setting doesnt work very well, in my opinion, He just doesnt 'teach' well. But then again thats just my opinion.

I took one course in college where the instructors accent was so pronounced I could barely understand what she was saying. I dropped out two weeks later. Eventually I retook the course with another instructor who spoke English and not some variation thereof. What are department heads thinking when they hire people like this?

I am sure all of the AutoCAD instructors are top notch. Why most of them have a Masters Degree and several cad certificates. Least that is what I was told when I was unemployed and looking for work. There were several places looking for instructors, all of them told me I was not qualified, without asking me a single question about AutoCAD.

Same here, I taught at a tech college for 10 years and then with an ATC for 4 years and get the "sorry you're not qualified" at places like ITT. : (

I've only taught one-on-one a handful of summer interns over the past few years so that is the extent of my teaching credentials!

I took three night courses, in AutoCAD related subjects, at a local community college with the same teacher. By day he was a shop instructor at a local high school. Over the summers he would "intern" at companies that used AutoDesk products in a real-world situation to supplement what he had picked up on his own or via a two week introduction to AutoCAD class he took prior to his high school introducing CAD to its students. He was pretty good. At least if you asked him a question, and he did not know the answer, he would say so then say he would return the following class with one. He made the effort although myself and one other student, who had extensive AutoCAD experience, did push him to the wall a couple of times! He actually came up to us on the last day of class and thanked us for asking the tough questions and helping him to expand his knowledge. That was pretty damn decent of the guy and I remember it to this day.

What are department heads "NOT" thinking when they hire people like this?

I fixed that one for you..

I was beginning to think I would never get another CAD job until the economy rebounded. I just got lucky when I landed this one.

If schools would staff there classrooms with real CAD and Design pros instead of worrying about what schools they attended and what pieces of paper the prospective instructors have from other schools, there might be a chance students could actually learn something about how CAD works and how to apply that knowledge for a career.

There are many companies with similar hiring practices.

When I was teaching at the Tech College it was at nights (other than one semester) and my day time job was in CAD. When I first went back to school to learn AutoCAD after doing board drafting for a number of years the first class was on the board. Like you, I too got the thanks from the instructor saying he learn more from me on the basic drafting techniques than he taught the class. Then when I took the first AutoCAD course with a different instructor I told him "That wasn't the standards when I started drafting back in 1973, Oh wait you where in diapers then."

I was responsible for drafting the design of the first wheel. Carved it in stone...twice. The engineer wanted more facets on the polygon.

My first AutoCAD teacher was a quantity surevyor by profession and was teaching us out of the City and Guild book, but he'd only read one week ahead. One an guy and myself finished the 36 one and a half hour and week course 24 weeks in and he had us doing all the teaching as he said we understood the programme better than he did! Nice when they are honest:D shame we didn't get coffee from the teachers lounge like him though

I did hanve a bad maths teacher at school, if you said you didn't understand something she repeated what she had said before but a little slower and a little louder as if it was your fault you didn't understand!

Cool new avatar BTW SLW.