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Restore the UCS to World or to a previous UCS, and change the UCS icon settings.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
3 min.
Tutorial resources
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Transcript
00:03
There's a couple of ways that we can restore
00:06
the U CS to world. We can type in
00:10
U CS.
00:11
And here there's an option for world.
00:15
And once we have it
00:17
back in world,
00:18
we could leave this rotated view, it'll work just fine for X
00:24
refs.
00:24
But if we wanted the original view rotated back, this is where we could type in plan,
00:31
enter, enter
00:33
and not only have we restored the world U CS,
00:37
but we have the rotation restored the way it was before.
00:42
Now, another way we can restore
00:45
is
00:46
when we have another U CS,
00:50
we can go over to the view cube and at the bottom of it, there's a drop down for U CS S.
00:56
So let's do this. Let me type in U CS one more time
00:60
and I'm going to do the same thing that I did. I'm gonna rotate this
01:05
to this object. So now I have another U CS
01:09
and this says unnamed. Now over here,
01:14
what I can do is click on the drop down and simply choose W CS here
01:20
and now we are back in
01:22
the world. U CS.
01:24
Another thing that we can do using the U CS command
01:28
is we can restore to a previous U CS.
01:32
So notice I can go in and now it's back to what it was before.
01:37
Uh If I never saved any U CS si can keep going to previous
01:43
until I get back to a U CS that I had previously.
01:49
So now you can see that we got back to
01:52
when I lined up with the Cyan line by going to previous.
01:58
You can also go into the UCS manager by typing in ucs
02:05
man.
02:06
And this will give you commands, notice that I can go to
02:11
the world us by setting a current,
02:15
I can go back there and hit a previous
02:20
ucs by setting it current.
02:24
So this is the UCS manager.
02:27
We also
02:29
can go to different views, we can go to orthographic ucs
02:38
and you can see how that changes.
02:43
And once again, we can set world current
02:47
very easily
02:48
by doing
02:50
the U CS manager. We also have settings where you can see
02:55
the U CS icon is turned on.
02:58
We can turn it on to display at the origin point.
03:01
We can apply it to all active view ports, allow selecting the U CS icon.
03:07
These are all the same settings from when we typed in the U CS icon command.
03:13
So keep that in mind as well.
Video transcript
00:03
There's a couple of ways that we can restore
00:06
the U CS to world. We can type in
00:10
U CS.
00:11
And here there's an option for world.
00:15
And once we have it
00:17
back in world,
00:18
we could leave this rotated view, it'll work just fine for X
00:24
refs.
00:24
But if we wanted the original view rotated back, this is where we could type in plan,
00:31
enter, enter
00:33
and not only have we restored the world U CS,
00:37
but we have the rotation restored the way it was before.
00:42
Now, another way we can restore
00:45
is
00:46
when we have another U CS,
00:50
we can go over to the view cube and at the bottom of it, there's a drop down for U CS S.
00:56
So let's do this. Let me type in U CS one more time
00:60
and I'm going to do the same thing that I did. I'm gonna rotate this
01:05
to this object. So now I have another U CS
01:09
and this says unnamed. Now over here,
01:14
what I can do is click on the drop down and simply choose W CS here
01:20
and now we are back in
01:22
the world. U CS.
01:24
Another thing that we can do using the U CS command
01:28
is we can restore to a previous U CS.
01:32
So notice I can go in and now it's back to what it was before.
01:37
Uh If I never saved any U CS si can keep going to previous
01:43
until I get back to a U CS that I had previously.
01:49
So now you can see that we got back to
01:52
when I lined up with the Cyan line by going to previous.
01:58
You can also go into the UCS manager by typing in ucs
02:05
man.
02:06
And this will give you commands, notice that I can go to
02:11
the world us by setting a current,
02:15
I can go back there and hit a previous
02:20
ucs by setting it current.
02:24
So this is the UCS manager.
02:27
We also
02:29
can go to different views, we can go to orthographic ucs
02:38
and you can see how that changes.
02:43
And once again, we can set world current
02:47
very easily
02:48
by doing
02:50
the U CS manager. We also have settings where you can see
02:55
the U CS icon is turned on.
02:58
We can turn it on to display at the origin point.
03:01
We can apply it to all active view ports, allow selecting the U CS icon.
03:07
These are all the same settings from when we typed in the U CS icon command.
03:13
So keep that in mind as well.
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