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Carlson Survey Embedded Basic Line Command
In Autocad I can draw a line easily by just entering the distance directly. In carlson embedded the process seems a bit more cumbersome. My questions are
1. Is there a command available as easy as the normal autocad command to draw a standard line where you just line it up and enter the distance?
or
2. When carlson prompts
[Distance/Extend/Undo/
]: is it possible to set the default to Distance rather than Pick point or point numbers
to speed up the process???Anybody have a better way?
Thanks
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7 Replies
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I know that you can type this on the command line:
@100.50
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you have multiple options for line work under the COGO pull down.
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Try extender
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> is it possible to set the default to Distance rather than Pick point or point numbers
> to speed up the process???
>Yes.
Make a macro. I use the toolbars, create a new command;the macro would look something like this:
LINE;d;
Translated, it issues the LINE command, followed by an ENTER (the 😉
the backslash is a PAUSE for user input (pick a point), then it issues the D option for distance, another ENTER and the rest is user input. -
The Plot Deed Description command works well. You just need to know your quadrants. NE=1 SE=2 SW=3 NW=4
For instance S 75d54″22″ W, 222.68′ would be entered as 375.5422 enter 222.68
Carlson also has and extend by distance command, EXTENDER, that has many options that may be of use to you.
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Perfect that macro is what I was looking for thanks.
Thanks to all
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the extender command in Carlson is the fastest way I calc Plats shorten lengthen all 1-9 cogo commands (yes even deflection’s right and left) as well as right and left at 90° it’s so fast to input the line work into a drawing; also extends curves. Is there anything that could even come close in Civil 3D?
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