Move, Copy, etc commands on AutoCAD 2007

[kander]

Recently moved to 2007 and having a little glitch with move, copy, etc commands.

For example, you draw 2 circles on the screen side by side. You wish to move both circles from cirle 1 centre to circle 2 centre. You select move command, select both cirles, select the centre of circle 1 as you base point, however when you move to new location (circle 2 centre) it has vanished. Older versions of Acad allowed this. Now have to draw line from circle 2 centre to remember this location.

Please help.

 

[Exxit]

kander,

in AC2004 the sv was "dragmode".

Lothar

ADT 2004
ACAD 2002

 

[DavidH001]

Kander

Check the variable PICKADD if it is set to 0 you must hold the shift key to individual objects with multiple picks, if set as 1 you can just pick each object with out the shift key.


David

 

[cfee]

do you mean that the auto-object snap point for circle 2 center no longer appears without having to actually enter the cen before selecting the 2nd circle ?

C. Fee

 

[kander]

cfee, that is exactly what I mean. you have to draw a line from the centre of circle 2, or place point i.e. 100@90deg, etc

 

[daddycat]

Type "dragmode" on the command line - then type on. this will cure it.

 

[kander]

thanks for the help guys but this still isn't cracked.

The problem seems to only occur when I have one of the shadings turned on.

i.e. Display set to 3D realistic shading. I have a 3D cube solid. I want to move it with the base point one corner, but when selected to move it will not snap onto any of the corner of the block, only onto another solid or 2D object. Turning the display to 2D wireframe seems to fix the problem, but I prefer to work in 3D realistic shading.

Is this a new feature to Acad 2007?

The PICKADD command seems not to make a difference.

Thanks again,
Kev