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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
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Since you have Ortho on and you want to just use direct distance entry you should be typing this instead
Line
pick point
pull cursor in direction desired
type 5'
hit enter.
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.
Without Ortho on you could use
line
pick point
@5'<0
but there wouldn't be a need to do that with ortho on as shown above.
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@Anonymous wrote:
.... 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?? ....
Are you intending @5',0 or @0,5'? 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 two coordinates. But if you're giving it two comma-separated coordinates [with Dynamic input off in new-enough versions], without the @ it will want to go to that "raw" location based on the XY origin, not relative to the point you're starting from.
Search for "To Specify a Precise Point Location" in Help for all the possibilities.
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ok that worked. I was doing it the other way though and it worked fine (for years
then it didn't.
thank you!