Moving vertex on a line

[Jockbh0y]

I know this is probably very simple and despite having been using CAD for 15 years I cant find the answer.

 

In every cad version Ive had, you can do the following:

 

-You draw a simple line, then you want the right vertex to move 500mm to the right, so you select the vertex, pull to the right with polar tracking, type 500, and job done. Same if say you wanted the same vertex to move up, down etc.

 

If i try this same thing with a line at an angle, it works as i would have thought, but if i do it with a horizontal line and want to move the vertex horizontally, it seems to act weird and draws the line 500 but from the left hand point.

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Thanks

[rkent]

Do you have DYN on or off? Try with it off if it is set to on. DYNMODE = 0, or pick DYN button at bottom center of screen.

[Jockbh0y]

Acts the same way when its switched both on and off it seems.

 

Its almost like if i move it any other way, it referes to the vertex itself for reference, but if i move it straight along the same axis of the existing line, then it uses the left hand vertex as reference rather than the one i'm moving.

 

I'm just finding it a bit weird because every version of CAD has been fine through the years and now its started doing it, so not sure if its something to do with 2012 or if its a setting i've accidentaly hit.

[Jockbh0y]

Finally found the answer, supposedly its a bug in 2012 though the post i read said they didnt if/when they would fix it, but in the meantime the workaround is that you need to turn off both tangent and perpendicular snaps, then bizarrely enough it works as before.

 

Thanks for your help, its appreciated.