Stefan BMR Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Extremely simple, using only AutoCad features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Knowing the OP he will probably say that technique relies too much on utilizing the command line options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tharwat Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Knowing the OP he will probably say that technique relies too much on utilizing the command line options. Though I don't know what is the use or the benefit of that way of drafting . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Well the OP does wants something that is pretty much automatic or at least it would seem so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestly Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Extremely simple, using only AutoCad features. That's cool, but it's also the result of customization, not something that's included in AutoCAD. You're solution may well be acceptable, but what you've demonstrated is essentially the same as using the Parallel Osnap. The OP has requested (and demonstrated) being able to draw lines at a relative angle to the selected object, not just parallel to another object. Edited January 7, 2015 by nestly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan BMR Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Knowing the OP he will probably say that technique relies too much on utilizing the command line options. C'mon guys, it takes 1 more keystroke than OP, but it also allows to enter an angle instead of selecting an object. That's cool, but it's also the result of customization, not something that's included in AutoCAD. You're solution may well be acceptable, but what you've demonstrated is essentially the same as using the Parallel Osnap. The OP has requested (and demonstrated) being able to draw lines at a relative angle to the selected object, not just parallel to another object. It is a customization, but it only alters some sysvars, nothing more. Relative angles? OK, it's there GIF doesn't work. Removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Sometimes we can be such sticklers for detail...myself included. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan BMR Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Sometimes we can be such sticklers for detail...myself included. But, sir, it is smarter this way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestly Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Relative angles? OK, it's there GIF doesn't work. Removed Yeah, in the OP's animation, the 2nd line is draw at 15 degrees to the selected line, then proceeds to use 90 and 0 degrees for the remainder of the lines, so actually none of the lines were drawn at the same angle as the reference line, they were all drawn at an angle relative to the reference line. If you have a routine that can do that, I'd definitely have use for it. (better yet if it worked with plines) Re:Gif... it has to be under 500kb, or it will automatically be resized and won't be animated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan BMR Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Re:Gif... it has to be under 500kb, or it will automatically be resized and won't be animated. I hope is OK now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestly Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Ok, you've impressed me. Will you share what you've written to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko_ribar Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Here is my version... Posted here. Regards, M.R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan BMR Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Will you share what you've written to do that? It was never my intention to post any code. I saw it as a challenge and I wanted to know if this is possible on AutoCAD. My code is not finished, it is very limited tested and I will not spend any minute with it, as I don't see any major advantage on using such a tool. But I will tell you what it does: it simple changes polaraddang and polarmode system variables. Further development should take care of autosnap and orthomode as well and of infinite possibilities of changing them manually, using F8, F10 and F11 key, when this function is running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestly Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Thanks Marko, that works pretty well. Two small issues though, 1) it's not always clear which direction the angle is relative to the reference object, 2) Polarmode seems to be disabled, but depending on how the lisp is ended, sometimes neither Ortho or Polar is enabled after exiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko_ribar Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 To be clear, I admit I wrote that part of the code without much thinking... You should change (setq nang (cvunit (- ang difang) "radian" "degree")) to (setq nang (cvunit (+ ang difang) "radian" "degree"))... And now you also must know that positive angle is always CCW like everything in ACAD, and if you enter negative number angle is measured in CW direction... Sorry for inconvenience, I wrote that part very childish... Regards, M.R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I think I'll just stick to using SNAPANG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadfan Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 That's cool, but it's also the result of customization, not something that's included in AutoCAD. You're solution may well be acceptable, but what you've demonstrated is essentially the same as using the Parallel Osnap. The OP has requested (and demonstrated) being able to draw lines at a relative angle to the selected object, not just parallel to another object. Yes, you are right !This is exactly what I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadfan Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Yeah, in the OP's animation, the 2nd line is draw at 15 degrees to the selected line, then proceeds to use 90 and 0 degrees for the remainder of the lines, so actually none of the lines were drawn at the same angle as the reference line, they were all drawn at an angle relative to the reference line. If you have a routine that can do that, I'd definitely have use for it. (better yet if it worked with plines) Re:Gif... it has to be under 500kb, or it will automatically be resized and won't be animated. You really careful ah. good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadfan Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Here is my version... Posted here. Regards, M.R. Very thank you! Marko ! I will test it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadfan Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Thanks Marko, that works pretty well. Two small issues though, 1) it's not always clear which direction the angle is relative to the reference object, 2) Polarmode seems to be disabled, but depending on how the lisp is ended, sometimes neither Ortho or Polar is enabled after exiting. [ATTACH=CONFIG]52312[/ATTACH] Thank you guy . how did you make that GIF in AutoCAD? It looks very beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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