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  1. 10th Apr 2008 09:51 pm #1
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    Default Drawing any shapes gives straight line only

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    I am using AutoCAD 2005. It was working quite well and in the middle of drawing a square I must have hit the wrong key and now what ever shape I want to draw end up been a straight line. Even if I copy a shape from a different file and pasted to either drawing it ends up been a straight line.

    Can anybody help?

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    Try setting your view to top or world. View>3D Views>Plan Views>World UCS
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    That perticular command is greyed out. also (not sure if this will help)

    the UCS icon is a broken pencil.
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    Can you post a screen shot?
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    Sorry it took so long, I had to really reduce the size of the pic.

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    quote: The "broken pencil" UCS icon (shown right) appears if your view direction is edge-on to the current UCS (or within one degree of edge-on). The icon indicates that you cannot draw in the current view.

    have a look here for ther rest : http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/autocad/ucs.php
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    That fixed the problem

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