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    <title>tema Re: drawing line and dimensions en AutoCAD Forum</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;Since you have Ortho on and you want to just use direct distance entry you should be typing this instead&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Line&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;pick point&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;pull cursor in direction desired&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;type 5'&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;hit enter.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The way you are doing it you are specifying a location of 5',0" and so the line goes from where you first picked to that coordinate.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Without Ortho on you could use&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;line&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;pick point&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;@5'&amp;lt;0&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;but there wouldn't be a need to do that with ortho on as shown above.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>GrantsPirate</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-02-11T17:18:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>drawing line and dimensions</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6035702#M112374</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Let me start out by saying i am a novice when it comes to AUTOCAD. I get around just for furniture specification. that being said i've had no issues but i must have hit something by mistake because i can no longer draw lines or enter dimensions using x,y coordinates. WHen i try and draw a straight line with ortho on and i enter for example, 5',0" i get this long angled line. with dimensions (again everything was normal until the other day) horizontal dimensions it will do it but i have to make sure i use the 0" for example i used to be able to type 5',0 now i have to type 5',0". but verticle same issue as drawing lines. i enter 0",5' and i get a long horizontal dimension in the thousands?? this is in existing drawings, new drawing when i click on linear dimension (DIMLINEAR), click my start point and enter my coordinates i get invalid point input . Open to any help and please dumb it down for me &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://forums.autodesk.com/html/@38DF24EF580240D512020314976B5FC8/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:" title=":cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-11T16:50:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: drawing line and dimensions</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6035714#M112377</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Type in UNITS&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Change this setting to Arch&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/217610iB772542F44CC47D2/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" alt="Capture.JPG" title="Capture.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:55:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Patchy</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-11T16:55:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: drawing line and dimensions</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6035762#M112380</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Since you have Ortho on and you want to just use direct distance entry you should be typing this instead&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Line&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;pick point&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;pull cursor in direction desired&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;type 5'&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;hit enter.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The way you are doing it you are specifying a location of 5',0" and so the line goes from where you first picked to that coordinate.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Without Ortho on you could use&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;line&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;pick point&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;@5'&amp;lt;0&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;but there wouldn't be a need to do that with ortho on as shown above.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6035762#M112380</guid>
      <dc:creator>GrantsPirate</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-11T17:18:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: drawing line and dimensions</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6035915#M112389</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@Anonymous&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;P&gt;....&amp;nbsp;i can no longer draw lines or enter dimensions using x,y coordinates. WHen i try and draw a straight line with ortho on and i enter for example, 5',0" i get this long angled line. .... i enter 0",5' and i get a long horizontal dimension in the thousands?? ....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Are you intending&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;@&lt;/STRONG&gt;5',0 or&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;@&lt;/STRONG&gt;0,5'? &amp;nbsp;As Grantspirate pointed out, if you have Ortho on and are "aiming" the cursor in the direction you want to go, the pure distance is all you need, not &lt;EM&gt;two&lt;/EM&gt; coordinates. &amp;nbsp;But if you're giving it &lt;EM&gt;two comma-separated coordinates&lt;/EM&gt; [with Dynamic input off in new-enough versions], without the &lt;STRONG&gt;@&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;it will want to go to that "raw" location based on&amp;nbsp;the XY origin, not relative to the point you're starting from.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Search for "To Specify a Precise Point Location" in Help for all the possibilities.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:18:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6035915#M112389</guid>
      <dc:creator>Kent1Cooper</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-11T18:18:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: drawing line and dimensions</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6036492#M112427</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks it was on architectural&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:28:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6036492#M112427</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-12T00:28:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: drawing line and dimensions</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/drawing-line-and-dimensions/m-p/6036493#M112428</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;ok that worked. I was doing it the other way though and it worked fine (for years &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://forums.autodesk.com/html/@38DF24EF580240D512020314976B5FC8/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:" title=":cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:" /&gt; then it didn't.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;thank you!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:29:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-12T00:29:51Z</dc:date>
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