Question about drawing lines and related tools.

Hello,

I have a question but it's a little hard to describe.

Let's say I draw a rectangle, and I want to draw a line coming out from the rectangle. Normally I would use OSNAP to get midpoint and endpoint, but this time I want to draw it from any part of the edges of the rectangle.

How do I get the cursor to "snap" to the lines of the rectangle? Similarly, I would like this function for the MOVE tool as well, I used this method in Sketchup before and really liked it a lot.

How do I achieve this in AutoCAD? I tried Nearest, Prependicular, but they don't work as well.

edit: just found out my subject line is not related , haha

Not sure I entirely understand what you want to do. Do you want your new line to be actually touching the rectangle in your example or to simply be parallel/perpendicular to it? The "near" osnap will snap to whatever you put the crosshairs over, and you pick where. If you need a specific distance from say...one end of the rectangle, draw your line at that end, then use the offset or move command to position it.

If you could post a sketch of what you're trying to do, that would help a lot. Nuthin like pictures.

I want it to snap to any line, rectangular or circular.

But it's ok , went through all the F keys and found F11 does it.

And now I got other questions related to drawing, this program just gives me a headache...