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Altering the UCS manually and dynamically in 3D AutoCAD

Altering the UCS manually and dynamically in 3D AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Altering the UCS manually and dynamically in 3D AutoCAD

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- We're in a new drawing now called Using UCS.dwg. And you know the drill, you download it from the library to follow along with the video. Now, the UCS in the drawing name stands for User Coordinate System, and that's what we're going to look at using in AutoCAD when we're working in 3D. Now, the default User Coordinate System in AutoCAD is WCS though, which is World Coordinate System. So you will often see over here on the view cube, WCS like so, and if I want a new UCS, I can click there on the little dropdown menu. I can also just type UCS and press Enter, and it'll ask me to specify the origin of a new UCS, a new User Coordinate System. Now what we are going to take a look at, is non-dynamic and dynamic UCS. Now, dynamic UCS is normally on by default when you're working in 3D in AutoCAD, and it can be a little bit annoying sometimes because what it does is it snaps to a 3D face. So we've got our nice 3D solid…

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