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My properties panel seems to be lying to me.

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My properties panel seems to be lying to me.

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I have had a line I wanted to add another line to in the same direction. I went to properties to get the angle of the existing line. Drew the new line at the angle listed in properties for the first line and got a new line that was 2deg off. Polar tracking is set to 90, 180, 270,360.

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imadHabash
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try this :

  • make your line command active .
  • specify first point where ever you want .
  • Now .. command line asked for the Next point , type   @1<41 [ @ length of your line < your angle ] 

any changes ?

Note : make sure that you have a right and proper UCS direction . 

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j.palmeL29YX
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@Anonymous wrote:

I have had a line I wanted to add another line to in the same direction. 


 

You can use the Osnap PARallel as shown in >>this video<< . 

A first line was drawn in any direction. Now

- start the new line command,

- choose a start point, 

- activate the OSNAP PAR(allel), 

- hover the cursor to the first line, 

- move the cursor until you see the temporary line, 

- type the length you need (here  100).

 

BTW: I'd suggest never to use (to type in) a value which is shown in the property window or after the list command or others, because the shown values have a limited precision. 

 

In some cases you also can use the Osnap Extension. (I'm not sure what you want to draw) 

>>Example<<

 

 

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I agree that you should not read the angle from the Properties palette and then type it in.  You may have your precision of angle display rounded off to the nearest whole degree, and that will not often be the actual angle.  But if that's the issue, I wouldn't expect your results to be off by more than half a degree, not the 2 degrees you describe.  Do you have some object snap mode(s) running that could throw things off?

 

You can align your crosshairs direction with the direction of anything, using AlignSnap.lsp, with its AS and ASB commands, available >here<.  And not just straight things with linearity like Lines and Polylines, but Text or Block rotation angles, curves at the tangent direction at the pick point, etc.  Then with Ortho on, what you draw will be parallel [or perpendicular] to it, regardless of angle display precision in Properties.  The AS command aligns the direction only; the ASB command also puts the Snap Base at a logical location in relation to the picked object.  See the comments in that thread and in the code.

 

You could  also just COPY the "source" object, and edit the copy in various ways, for length, and/or Layer, and/or whatever other aspects you need.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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