All those variables!

[haggis]

Hi all,

At the LINE command, when I type the following,
<45
enter
120
enter
I get a line at 45 deg. 120 units long. A coworker does the same and his lines are infinite in length. Is there a variable setting possibly on his machine that would cause this?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Haggis

 

[borgunit]

Could one of you be using metric and the other inches?

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[CADSTUDENT]

Hello Haggis,
Check to see if polar tracking is toggled on. This will cause the drawing crosshairs to "snap" to any predefined angled increment. To turn off polar tracking, pick the POLAR on the status bar or use the [F10] function key. Note that a tooltip on the alignment path should be present if polar tracking is on.

John

 

[haggis]

borgunit and CADSTUDENT,

Thanks for the tips but I had overlooked something so obvious. When I was showing this co-worker, I already had a drawing open and everything displayed fine. Turns out that he had started a new drawing with limits of 0,0 12,9

Of course the 120 inch line flew out of the screen. If he had tried a 2" line, he would have seen the same results as when I showed him.

Thanks again,

Haggis

 

[CDH]

Just to insert a tip here, if you set polar up so that it uses whatever angle you typically use, you can avoid typing in the angle and distance. Lets start with a 0 degree line. If you start the line command, pick your start point, and then, instead of typing the angle and hitting enter, just drag the mouse in the direction you want to go, and type the distance and hit enter. If you use polar with this, you can easily draw a line at any angle and distance quicky. Basically, whatever direction the mouse is "pulling" the line, is what direction the line will be drawn.
This works for pretty much any thing, like move copy, stretch, etc. Just move the mouse in the direction you want and type the distance.