Polar tracking overriding object tracking (per drawing/template)

[moon47usaco]

A bit difficult to explain so I will do my best.

In our company template (and all of the current company drawings) polar tracking is suppressing/overriding a object tracking line.

In the below screen shot I want to:

1. Select the box at a point to copy/move

2. Hover over another endpoint to start object tracking

3. Move/copy the box to the red points with the red line being the temporary object tracking line that would appear.

In a normal drawing started from the acad template everything works fine.

In our company files when the polar tracking is locked to one of its angles the object tracking is ignored and does not snap as expected.

See the attached drawings AbNormal comes from our company template Normal is from acad template.

I have screecasts at the fallowing Autodesk forum post:


Why is object tracking being overridden in the AbNormal drawing?

Attachment 105190

[moon47usaco]

We revived a solution from Autodesk

It entails using DVIEW and setting points to 0,0,0.

IE the read only variable TARGET is not the default 0,0,0 but some other value causing problems.

See the Autodesk forum post for more info.

[Tom Beauford]

AutoCAD's Longest-Lived Bug?
Workaround: You might think that you could manually set TARGET to 0,0,0, but it's a read-only variable, so you can't do that. You might think that using the PLAN command would fix it up, but it doesn't. The best way is to use the Dview command's Point option to put things back to normal. Here is the command sequence:

Dview [Enter] [Enter] Point [Enter] 0,0,0 [Enter] 0,0,1 [Enter] [Enter]

If you come across this problem often, it is probably worth making a menu macro to do this:

^C^C_.Dview;;_Point;0,0,0;0,0,1;;