Looking down at the corner of the screen when dragging an entity in the
middle sounds rather distracting.
What I find works well is to set a sensible sketch grid and I can achieve
the same in a heads-up fashion. For example, my imperial system template is
set to one minor grid line at every inch and one major grid line at every
foot.
Similarly my metric system template is set with every minor grid line at
every centimeter and every major at every decimeter.
I know JD isn't a big fan of grids and I respect where he's coming from, but
I find getting an object within the right order of magnitude saves a bit of
chasing around. Do I try to get it perfect - not a chance.
Richard
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If you observe status line at the bottom of the screen while sketching, it
will give approzimate coordinate lengths.
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I'm new to the Inventor side of things. So here is a brief history, I
learned 2d AutoCAD in 1992 on a digitizer pad. I have been using 2d AutoCAD
ever since in my professional career. I just bought back around Christmas
Inventor 2008. I then went to AutoDesk classes to learn inventor. I love
this software! It so much faster and easier then my 2d mechanical cad. I use
the software around an average of 50 hrs a week.
Here is my complaint; I wish that when I was in sketch mode that I could
pick the line or circle command. Then place a start point and then move the
mouse in the direction I went that line/circle to grow. Then type (2.5625)
in the length I need, then hit enter and it be that length.
Instead I pick the point, and the make some length. Then I go pick the
dimension command and specify the length. I understand that this is how it
works! I would just like to have the option to specify the length as I'm
entering the command.
I sure hope that makes sense?