cursor aligning with object face

[dtaylor]

So I don't have a lot of experience with autocad. I'm using 2011. I'm drawing a boat mooring in 3d. I have polar tracking on. Something annoying happens with my cursor. In any view, the cursor insists on aligning itself with the angled face of the mooring. how do i get it to stop doing this? It doesn't happen when I'm not about to place anything, but only happens when i want to place a line or such.

thanks

[ReMark]

Try disabling the Dynamic UCS. There should be an icon for it in the System Tray at the bottom left-hand side of your screen.

[dtaylor]

I think that did it. Thank you very much.

[dtaylor]

How come it automatically re-enables itself sometimes?

[ReMark]

You'll have to ask someone who is way smarter than I am. I did not do the programming. Yikes!

[dtaylor]

hmm, it seems to turn back on almost every time i click on a new operation.

[kencaz]

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