Basics - Drawing Lines

[Anonymous]

I am novice.  Was trained on autocad yeats ago.  Watched videos on basics.  Have setup units, polar tracking, object snap, and layers.  Trying to draw lines now.  Want to create a section of house.  Trying to draw lines at a specific length.  Click line, then it tells me specify first point, which I do, then I type the dimension in dialogue box and hold to degree, click enter, but line doesn't stick.  Please help!

[steven-g]

A screencast of what you doing would help, or even a screenshot or two so we can see what you see, something showing 'dialogue boxes' and the results of what happens (Autocad doesn't use dialogue boxes for drawing lines?)

[Anonymous]

Totally opened to screencast.  Please email me the link as soon as possible.  Available now to start.  Sooner the better.  Thank you so much.

[steven-g]

I think you misunderstood the last post, you need to show us what you are doing and the link for making a screencast was there in the last post.

[Anonymous]

Does your drawing have to stay to the right of the x/y axis at bottom of screen?

[Anonymous]

Also, I have a large monitor.  When I move my screen from laptop to large monitor, the grid only covers a portion of screen.  Looks like grey space below with no grid.  How can I increase my expanse space.  O,0 origin and extent 200', 200'?

[steven-g]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Does your drawing have to stay to the right of the x/y axis at bottom of screen?

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No, it can be placed anywhere but generally, it is better to place your drawing close to the 0,0 origin

[steven-g]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Also, I have a large monitor.  When I move my screen from laptop to large monitor, the grid only covers a portion of screen.  Looks like grey space below with no grid.  How can I increase my expanse space.  O,0 origin and extent 200', 200'?

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Again, show us a screenshot we can't see what you are trying to describe. The drawing extents should change as you start adding elements. Though you can limit a drawing to not go beyond the extents, but that is a more advanced topic and something you need to manually set anyway, it isn't set in a standard blank drawing.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Steve....I am assuming 0,0 is the x/y that shows at bottom left?

[steven-g]

That would depend on your settings, but in a default setup no. The UCS icon x/y is always shown at the bottom left of your screen to show you which direction x and y are, but that icon isn't always placed at 0,0 it depends on your settings in the 'ucsicon' command.