Toggle UCS
Turns on or turns off the User Coordinate System (UCS).
- Step-By-Step
- Tips and Tricks
- Related Tools
1 . Click the Toggle UCS icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be found on the Layout page > UCS section.
Alternative: Invoke Toggle UCS using the Find Tool by searching the command name and clicking the icon, which is pictured above.
Learn more about alternative methods for launching commands.
2 . The UCS is enabled and its axes indicator is displayed. Click the Toggle UCS icon again to disable the UCS and hide its axes indicator.
- The position of the UCS symbol in your window is set in User and Site Options > Modeling > User coordinate system indicator positions. The position may vary if
Show user coordinate system indicator at origin when origin is visible - The default UCS aligns with global coordinates in Modeling. In the Drawing Editor, the default UCS aligns with screen coordinates.
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When the UCS is enabled, the Offset Controls, ORTHO, and the X-Y-Z display will report UCS coordinates. When you modify the UCS using other tools such as Rotate UCS, those tools follow the modified UCS coordinates instead of the global or screen coordinates.
- UCS Axes (topic)
- Rotate UCS (related tool)
- Align UCS to object (related tool)
- Set UCS to current view (related tool)
- Set UCS origin (related tool)
- Set UCS to previous coordinate system (related tool)
- Show user coordinate system indicator at origin when origin is visible (User and Site Options > Modeling)
- User coordinate system indicator positions (User and Site Options > Modeling)