2016 SP4 Line tool won't stay in one spot - origin moves around screen

[Hobbsies]

See video for description. I'm using the line to in vertex mode and the origin will not stay put. It's inconsistent, sometimes the line works fine and other times the line behaves as if it's rotating around a giant invisible circle in some sort of tangent mode. I've restarted vectorworks multiple times and this occurs in a variety of different files. This started when I upgraded to SP4 a few months ago.

 

What's the solution?

 

 

[PVA - Admin]

Does this same issue happen in a new blank file?

It looks like you have Layer Plane active, do you have View > Unified View enabled?

[Hobbsies]

9 minutes ago, JimW said:

Does this same issue happen in a new blank file?

It looks like you have Layer Plane active, do you have View > Unified View enabled?

It doesn't seem to happen in a new file in the same way. it behaves the same way when I drop the line on the edge of a circle.

 

I do not have unified view enabled.

2017-02-23_09-24-30.mp4

[PVA - Admin]

Go ahead and enable Unified View, then go to a front or left view and then back to Top/Plan, then retry drawing the line. If it still does the same thing afterwards get the affected file to technical support directly and they can take a look.

[Hobbsies]

A friend on FB recommended turning off tangent snap, and that seems to fix it. Unsure why but maybe has something to do with the CAD import and the fact that the line I'm placing the origin on is ever so slightly curved.

 

Thanks for your help!

[PVA - Admin]

Likely there is something on another layer that the snap is picking up but you aren't seeing, if it comes back even though you have tangent snapping off, Unified View should align all the layers and in the Unified View options, you can disable hiding objects on layers with different scales which might reveal what it's trying to snap to as well.