New to AutoCad 2016 acadISO-Named Plot styles.dwt trying to plot a simple shape

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New to AutoCad 2016 acadISO-Named Plot styles.dwt trying to plot a simple shape

Anonymous
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Hello,

 

Being new to AutoCAD 2016 I'm having trouble plotting a simple rectangle with the following coordinates:

 

50,50 ENTER

150,50 ENTER

150,100 ENTER

50,100 ENTER

 

Using acadISO-Named Plot styles.dwt template

Have Dynamic Input set to off.

 

Steps:

 

1. At command line I have - Line specify first point: 50,50 (Enter)

2."                                "      Line specify next point or [Undo]: 150,50

 

That's as far as I can get it wont accept the rest of the coordinates, it keeps jumping outside of the command line box and will not let me type in the rest listed above - am I supposed to add the angle between the plots?

 

I'm using the book AutoCAD 2016 for beginners by CADFolks  and this example is on page 70

 

RectangleExample.png

 

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user181
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Try command RECTANG then enter 50,50 enter then 150,100 enter.  The only coordinates you need for a rectangle are lower left and upper right.

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user181
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if you are just using the line command like the example says then you need to turn the dynamic mode off by setting DYNMODE to 0 or turning it off with the button shown in your picture

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Anonymous
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Ok that did the trick - had to set Dynmode to value of 0 - for off

 

Thank for your help

 

 

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