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
I know that you can type this on the command line:
@100.50<s45d41'35"w
and it will draw a line 100.5 at the angle specified.
you have multiple options for line work under the COGO pull down.
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???
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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.
Perfect that macro is what I was looking for thanks.
Thanks to all
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?