setting angle

[whitehaint]

Hey there folks, nice forum you have here. I am just starting school and haven't used AutoCad for about 10 years and am having trouble with specifying an angle when drawing lines. I can set the length but when I type in angle it does nothing. Oh, AutoCad 2010 is the version, thanks for helping a lost newbie!

[rkent]

Hey there folks, nice forum you have here. I am just starting school and haven't used AutoCad for about 10 years and am having trouble with specifying an angle when drawing lines. I can set the length but when I type in angle it does nothing. Oh, AutoCad 2010 is the version, thanks for helping a lost newbie!

 

You can use Polar, right click and set angle.

 

Or, type

 

UCS, Z, angle. Later UCS, World.

 

Snap, R, 0,0, angle.

 

If you have an object already at that angle, use Otrack, and parallel osnap.

 

Probably others.

[whitehaint]

PERFECT! Thank you for the help.

[nukecad]

A little documented and so not well used command is xline

 

xline = construction line

These are lines of infinite length that you put on the drawing at set distances and angles and then 'trace' over or snap to their intersections, etc.

You usually have them on their own layer so that you can easily turn them off or delete them when you are done with them.

 

Options for this command are-

enter (pick or enter two points, line will pass through both)

Horizontal (pick or enter a point, line will be horizontal at that point)

Vertical (pick or enter a point, line will be vertical at that point)

Bisect (pick or enter three points, line will bisect the angle)

Offset (enter an offset distance, pick a line to offset, pick which side to offset)

 

These options also have sub-options that allow you to put xlines perpendicular to an existing line, offset through a particular point, etc.

 

Take a look in the Acad help, or just try playing around with the command. It wont do any harm, just put some lines on your drawing.

 

So if you want to draw a line at say 45 deg through a point then-

 

xline

a

45

 

puts an infinite length line at 45 deg through the point picked.