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Circular guideline from origin point appears when moving elements - how to turn off?

Liamthanks
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Hi all,

 

I have tried searching for the relevant setting but have not had any luck, however I am hoping it's a relatively easy solution. 

 

When I go to move any object around, I keep getting a circular guideline appear from the drawing origin point and it's annoying me. I haven't always had it, so can only assume I've accidentally turned it on some how?  


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Barry Kelly
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Are your delta buttons active for the coordinates?

 

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Barry Kelly
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Are your delta buttons active for the coordinates?

 

BarryKelly_0-1678765934212.png

 

Barry.

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Hey Barry, 

 

What toolbar are these options located in? 


If I turn off Snap Guides the issue resolves, but then I lose all the other snap guides as well. 

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AllanP
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Hi,

those are snap guides.

if you leave your mouse over a point for more than 2 seconds, it gives you a temporary measurement point and those lines/circles from any other temporary measurement point.

 

to turn them off you can select the snap guide icon

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or

go to the view menu

 

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The Coordinates are located in the  coordinate pallet

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i hope that helps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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@Liamthanks wrote:

What toolbar are these options located in? 


It is a 'Palette' rather than a toolbar.

Windows menu > Palettes > Coordinates.

 

Barry.

 

 

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Thanks Barry, turning that setting on appears to have resolved the issue and I've now updated my default work environment to suit.

 

Cheers!

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I am not sure if there is another way to swap between absolute/relative co-ordinates (i.e. menus or other tool bars).

I have always had that palette active at the bottom of the screen (it used to be a default palette - I am not sure if it is any more).

I like it because it also has buttons for the user origin/origin reset, rotated/ortho grids, grid snap and gravity (not needed so much any more).

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11