Can't enter command line

[Rob K]

Hi there,

 

I am new to this forum so hello everyone, I have a problem and as this has happened the first time I fire up autoCAD I can see that I am not going to have as easy a time as I did with 3D studio Max.

 

I found a tutorial on line, and it was talking about the command line, so i was entering points like it said, fine. I had to put it down as something came up at work. Go back to it to play some more, now I can no longer specify points in the command line, pressing space or enter just clears everything and asks to specify a point again.

 

What have I don't to make this happen, or is it a bug in the program. I have tried restarting again but still no.

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Kind regards

 

Rob

[Jack_O'neill]

A lot will depend directly on which command you were trying to use. What exactly are you trying to do?

[ReMark]

Have you tried starting the command first then entering the points when prompted by AutoCAD? Specify first point...

[Rob K]

Well yes it goes like this, and I may well have this wrong this is my first time using AutoCAD, I am an engineering student by the way if that helps, so co ordinates are what I want to work with.

 

Enter 'L' for line

then Enter or try to 'A: 0,0'

this worked the first time I played with it. I then put it down, when I came back there was a prompt for an update (fair enough I have just installed it) three updates later, and now when I press the space bar after the colon, it says invalid entry.

 

This is very confusing for me, as I was simply following a tutorial online and copying exactly what it says.

[ReMark]

I just enter the X,Y coordinates without anything preceding it.

[BlackBox]

I am an engineering student by the way if that helps

 

Ohhh! THAT explains everything.

 

Perhaps this example will help (red was manually typed at the command line):

Command: [color=red]L[/color]
LINE Specify first point: [color=red]0,0[/color]

Specify next point or [undo]: @[color=red]10,0[/color]

Specify next point or [undo]: [color=red]<Enter_NotShown>[/color]

Command:

 

HTH

[nestly]

 

Enter 'L' for line

then Enter or try to 'A: 0,0' ....

.... when I press the space bar after the colon, it says invalid entry.

 

 

I don't know what 'A; 0,0' is and you can't ever use the space bar for coordinate entry, that's the same as pressing

 

To draw a 10x5 rectangle (with Dynamic Input off)

 

Command: LINE

Specify first point:

Specify next point or [undo]: @10,0

Specify next point or [undo]: @0,5

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: @-10,0

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: @0,-5

Enter (to end command)

 

The "@" symbol tells AutoCAD to draw the line relative to the last point.

 

You can also use the "#" sign instead to specify the absolute coordinate

 

By default, if you have Dynamic input turned on, AutoCAD defaults to Relative coordinates, so you can omit the "@" symbol, AutoCAD will add it automatically at the command line.

 

Command: LINE

Specify first point:

Specify next point or [undo]: 10,0

Specify next point or [undo]: 0,5

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: -10,0

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: 0,-5

Enter (to end command)

[BlackBox]

I don't know what 'A; 0,0' is and you can't ever use the space bar for coordinate entry, that's the same as pressing

 

To draw a 10x5 rectangle (with Dynamic Input off)

 

Command: LINE

Specify first point:

Specify next point or [undo]: @10,0

Specify next point or [undo]: @0,5

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: @-10,0

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: @0,-5

Enter (to end command)

 

The "@" symbol tells AutoCAD to draw the line relative to the last point.

 

You can also use the "#" sign instead to specify the absolute coordinate

 

By default, if you have Dynamic input turned on, AutoCAD defaults to Relative coordinates, so you can omit the "@" symbol

 

Command: LINE

Specify first point:

Specify next point or [undo]: 10,0

Specify next point or [undo]: 0,5

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: -10,0

Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: 0,-5

Enter (to end command)

 

"Ah, ah, ah! You [forgot to use

][/b]!"
 
 

[rkent]

I don't know what 'A; 0,0' is and you can't ever use the space bar for coordinate entry, that's the same as pressing

 

 

nestly, to clarify a little, when inputing the coordinates, like typing @2

 

Line, spacebar or enter, 0,0, spacebar or enter, 10,0, spacebar or enter, etc.

[nestly]

@ rkent Yeah, I phrased that badly. Thanks for the clarification

@ RenderMan, Code? Pffft. that's not code.

[Rob K]

Perfect answer, thank you very much, that helps me a lot.

 

Basically the beginners tutorial I was reading was not helpful, I though I was going mad.

 

and I will try to use code tags in future.

 

Thanks for your prompt responses guys, that makes this forum very welcoming.

 

Kind regards

 

Rob K