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Quick question: how to draw this line?
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Quick question: how to draw this line?

Quick question: how to draw this line?

(OP)
how to draw S21 (deg) 17' 50" E in autocad?

thanks in advance

RE: Quick question: how to draw this line?

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without any add-ons

line
pick begin point
@100<S21d17'50"E

will draw line 100' bearing S21°17'50"E

 

Intel P4 3.0 GHZ
512 DDRAM
Win 2000 Pro
Autocad 14, 2002 with EP 2.3.1
Autocad 2008

RE: Quick question: how to draw this line?

(OP)
thanks buddy! I owe you one star ;)

RE: Quick question: how to draw this line?

and another... I didn't know you could draw bearings in ACAD...

Dik

RE: Quick question: how to draw this line?

Well I guess you don't need to draw bearings often being a structural type. That's probably the first thing I used AutoCAD for some 25 years ago, so I know it's not like a new feature :)

RE: Quick question: how to draw this line?

CarlB...

I occasionally do up site plans for some of my projects... thanks for the added info... I was going to see if the method worked on my 2002 version of autocad... glad it's not a new feature...

Dik

RE: Quick question: how to draw this line?

The @ construction means "relative from the first point selected"  You can use distances, angles, etc.  So, Line 0,0 @5,5 draws a line approx. 7.07 units long at a 45 degree angle from the point 0,0.  It's worth using help to see what other input variations are accepted.

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