Angle dimension between curved polyline and straight line

Angle dimension between curved polyline and straight line

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Angle dimension between curved polyline and straight line

rstewartBDDFE
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Good afternoon, I have a question in regards to the dimangular command. I'm currently trying to determine the angle between a curved line and a straight line however I'm receiving a message in autocad that states "object selected is not a line". I selected the straight line first then the angled polyline afterwards and autocad states the error message shown in the attached pdf. I would like to know if anyone knows a solution to this issue. Thank you

 

@cwr-pae 

 

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Goal is to determine the angle between the two red lines at the center of the previously attached image. 

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ACAD/C3D won't read an angle from a curve. A curve has a constantly changing angle to other objects. A work around is to draw a line tangent to the curve where you want to catch an angle. To get the line needed to angle you can use tangent osnap on the curve and point, end, etc, or tangent on the other. If there are no suitable targets, draw a line from the center of the curve perpendicular to the line and rotate it 90 degrees from the point it intersects the curve, put it on  a non plotting layer and get the angle of the 2 lines.

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Thank you!

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