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Trying to drop a "Snapshot" from a PDF (copy/paste) into my site plan. But I think I'm having some funky UCS tricks going on. Yes, my UCS is set at WORLD.
The site plan's UCS is set at true-North, so I clicked the UCS-View icon. It corrects the UCS-- now set at the WORLD (default). Great..easy fix. So I go to my PDF, copy a "snapshot", go back to AutoCad and paste the image. Unforunately, the image appears to be pasted at the same UCS angles as previously corrected (i.e., funky looking). As in, the top of the image is pushed back & to the right. I'm doing 2D, old school drawing, but AutoCad disagrees with me on that. Any ideas?

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AmarARCH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 14.Jun.2012 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2013 LT, Windows 7 Status: Offline Points: 39	Topic: Pasting a snapshot from PDF made 3D?? Posted: 16.Jan.2013 at 22:46
	AUTOCAD 2013 Trying to drop a "Snapshot" from a PDF (copy/paste) into my site plan. But I think I'm having some funky UCS tricks going on. Yes, my UCS is set at WORLD. The site plan's UCS is set at true-North, so I clicked the UCS-View icon. It corrects the UCS-- now set at the WORLD (default). Great..easy fix. So I go to my PDF, copy a "snapshot", go back to AutoCad and paste the image. Unforunately, the image appears to be pasted at the same UCS angles as previously corrected (i.e., funky looking). As in, the top of the image is pushed back & to the right. I'm doing 2D, old school drawing, but AutoCad disagrees with me on that. Any ideas? AUTOCAD 2013

philippe JOSEPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 14.Mar.2011 Location: France Using: AutoCAD Mechanical 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1494	Posted: 17.Jan.2013 at 07:27
	Hello AmarARCH, do you really know nothing about 3D ? If no, learn about VIEWPOINT and all about UCS commands and you will succeed in replacing ( by ROTATION 2D or ALIGN 3D ) your snapshot. Please tell us if and how you have corrected your problem because I also have sometimes problems with "automatic' UCS change ( without my will ) when approaching 3D objects.

AmarARCH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 14.Jun.2012 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2013 LT, Windows 7 Status: Offline Points: 39	Posted: 17.Jan.2013 at 21:14
	Yes, Philippe, I have no experience in 3D design, and I do not wish to perform a 3D design of any kind. I will do some homework on VIEWPOINT. Hopefully, I can resolve this issue. Thank you.

heinsite Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05.Feb.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD 2014 Status: Offline Points: 640	Posted: 18.Jan.2013 at 06:29
	Instead of copy/paste (which will end up as some kind of OLE object) why not attach the PDF as you would any other external reference? From there you can get your "snapshot" simply by creating a clipping boundary around the area you want to see. And if you don't like the rotation you can rotate the clip the same as you would rotate any other object in the drawing. You're making this harder than it really is. Dave.
	Dave Hein, P.E. Hawaii District Engineer Kona International Airport AutoCAD Certified Professional Autodesk Expert Elite

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