Creating Line by Bearing

[dmille35]

Is there a way to repeat creating a line by bearing without going to the ribbon and selecting every time you escape the command?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

welcome @forums.autodesk.com!

>> Is there a way to repeat creating a line [...] without going to the ribbon and selecting every time you escape the command?

When you finished a command you can:

right-click your mouse ==> Repeat ... whatever your last command was

press <SPACE> to get the last command repeated

press cursor up on your keyboard to get the last input, then press <ENTER> when the command is selected you want to start

So that should be easy enough or am I missing anything?

E.g. what I may miss is the phrase "creating a line by bearing" in your question as I don't know an option (with plane AutoCAD) to create a line "by bearing". Is it possible that you are using Civil 3D? In that case you might look to the options the command from the menu uses and make a small lisp for that.

- alfred -

[parkr4st]

Enter first point & enter  @distance<bearing angle for the next point in Map3D and Civil  i.e  @210.365<34d56'67"  or  @dist<angle i.e @345.23<90.00  in vanilla cad.  the angle can be decimal degrees, azimuth, dms, etc depending on what you are entering.  There also COGO option in Map3D

Dave

[rkmcswain]

In addition to the other replies here, this may also be helpful:
http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/autocad/survey-data.php

[doni49]

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Alfred.NESWADBA wrote:

Hi,

welcome @forums.autodesk.com!

>> Is there a way to repeat creating a line [...] without going to the ribbon and selecting every time you escape the command?

When you finished a command you can:

right-click your mouse ==> Repeat ... whatever your last command was

press <SPACE> to get the last command repeated

press cursor up on your keyboard to get the last input, then press <ENTER> when the command is selected you want to start

So that should be easy enough or am I missing anything?

E.g. what I may miss is the phrase "creating a line by bearing" in your question as I don't know an option (with plane AutoCAD) to create a line "by bearing". Is it possible that you are using Civil 3D? In that case you might look to the options the command from the menu uses and make a small lisp for that.

- alfred -

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I think you're probably right Alfred -- most likely using C3D.  If that's the case, then when you're placing your line and you're prompted for a point, type 'BD-- take note of the apostrophe before the BD.  You can also do this when drawing a pline.

[doni49]

Also -- assuming you ARE in fact talking about C3D, there is a separate group specifically for C3D.  For any question that is specific to C3D, I'd suggest posting over there.  If a question about something that plain old Acad (aka Vanilla Acad) does, I'd post here in this forum.

C3D forum:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D-General/bd-p/66