Problem with BIM Tutorial

[Roy_043]

As you can see, this line is on the axis, but it sure doesn't look like it is on the axis.

Your working plane is set to Auto. See this instruction in the tutorial:

Set the Working Plane to XY plane

[mfriedma]

I have now placed the door. It is very clearly not at 0,0,0 but the position in the Placement section is shown as 0,0,0.

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[mfriedma]

As you can see, this line is on the axis, but it sure doesn't look like it is on the axis.

Your working plane is set to Auto. See this instruction in the tutorial:

Set the Working Plane to XY plane

@Roy_043, thanks. But see later in the tutorial:

Set the Working Plane to auto so we are not restricted to the ground plane

Following your advice, I set working plane to XY Plane and then back to Auto. I got the below which is what I expected. Should changing from Auto to XY Plane and then back to Auto change what you see?

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[vocx]

...Should changing from Auto to XY Plane and then back to Auto change what you see?

No. Leave it as XY plane.

The system updates the grid when a command is launched, so you can just use Draft ToggleGrid to refresh the appearance of the grid.

[duncan.lithgow]

... as vocx says, anybody can help making it better!

Actually @yorik I've tried several times over the years to get an account on the wiki and it's never worked. It just says I don't have rights to request an account.

I'm going through this tutorial too and would love to be able to correct and sharpen the text as I go.

[vocx]

I've tried several times over the years to get an account on the wiki ...

How to get wiki editing permissions