Does "elevation" work in Y direction?How? 3

[IJR]

I am new to 3D, however I should say I really loved the "Elevation" command.

But currently I find it limited to XY plane. And I would like to use is with XZ planes too etc. Is this something to do with UCS?. I mean if I set UCS to XZ then will "elevation" get me to work in another XZ plane?

Regards
IJR

 

[tigrek]

move
select objects
from 0,0,0
to 0,25,0

shout give all selected objects an elevation of 25

 

[IJR]

Tigrek

thanks, but forgive my slow mind, do you mean if I have object in xY plane at z=0, then moving then a distance of 25 ft or metres ahead in Y direction(which means sliding in Y direction at Z=0) will get me to work in XZ plane at Y=25?

Sorry, assuming you havent got my point correctly, my question was, how can I force autocad to work in XZ plane at Y=say 25ft and so on.

Using "elevation" I can always force autocad to let me work in XY plane at Z=say 25ft.

If you visit here please elaborate.

regs
IJR

 

[shadow]

how come you dont just work in XY plain then rotate so that the y is now z and then you would have a drawing in the XZ plaine

By the way you would use the 3D Rotate command if everyone helps everybody the world will be a better place

 

[IJR]

Shadow, you seem to miss my point

Why rotate when you can simply set a work plane from plane to plane. Unless you tell me this is impossible in autocad, I have no alternative than arguing.

I mean you have a floorplan in XY plane at elevation 0.0 and similar plan at Z=5.00. Fine, I can use elevation here.

But you also have a wall in XZ plane at y=0 and a similar wall at y=5.00

Hasnt autocad figured this one out?

regs
IJR

 

[shadow]

no im not saying its impossible because autocad is so customizeable it all depends on how much time you are willing to spend on one thing if this is truely important to you rotate your UCS so that all you see is XZ and Y is pointing directly at you but as to setting a y elevation im not sure as to how you go about doing this at least not with out a little knowledge in lsp cause i would think that you would have to devise a lsp to expect all y inpute to = a certain number or depending on the types of entities you are useing you could go in create a custom mnu and preset some buttons with a variable and then set a lsp to ask you what that variable is do you get me
or you could just preset the buttons but then if you have the need to change your Y elevation then you have to go in and edit the button macros

Hope this helps if everyone helps everybody the world will be a better place

 

[IJR]

thanks Shadow

Keep the spirit up.

regs
IJR

 

[tigrek]

Hi, Both

Regarding the Elevation:
1. Elevation is a shortcut for z-coord. This much is fixed. Never x or y. elevation command is just a helicopter for the mice - still 2D - that cannot fly.
2. Which way z-coord points is freely adjustable. This is how you make use of elevation in any direction. And this is done by UCS - as Shadow said above.
3. Easiest way of UCS exercise is by View:
Choose a View - Isometric from any direction or Orthogonal from any direction, then
_UCS
by View (meaning the currently active view)
...
then set the
elevation 50
from this moment onward, new entities you draw,
either by picking points or by giving in x,y coords, assume automatically the z-coord 50.

Elevation has no effect if
-you pick points by Object snap or
-you give in all three (x,y,z) coords for each point.

UCS is the real tool but gets a bit of practicing to change it according to need practically. In all these years I still cannot do the visualizing of which axis is to turn which way. So, I use UCS either with View option or with Object option.
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Hope this is useful.

Take care.

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[shadow]

Back in the begining when i first started gettting into 3d modeling with autocad i had to do alot of the ucs rotating and such but alast i have not done much of that in the past 3 years not enought at least to warrent turning the ucs but one thing i do remember that i used to do was create my own stationary ucs Icon from lines at 0,0,0 that way i always knew which direction i was in and keep in mind back then i was working on R12 and R13 so the tools we have today were just being thought of but anyway tigrek i too had a problem visualizing everything to get the ucs right so i tell you what i did. I created the man made ucsicon and labled it with text then did my turning and if i ever got confused i would go back alittle and i kept a wooden block handy labled with xyz on the edges representing the ucs and after a while of using those tools i was able to get a better understanding of ow the ucs works if everyone helps everybody the world will be a better place