Quick question: how to draw this line? 2

[hepa99]

how to draw S21 (deg) 17' 50" E in autocad?

thanks in advance

 

[OZZY84]

without any add-ons

line
pick begin point
@100<S21d17'50"E

will draw line 100' bearing S21°17'50"E



Intel P4 3.0 GHZ
512 DDRAM
Win 2000 Pro
Autocad 14, 2002 with EP 2.3.1
Autocad 2008

 

[hepa99]

thanks buddy! I owe you one star

 

[dik]

and another... I didn't know you could draw bearings in ACAD...

Dik

 

[CarlB]

Well I guess you don't need to draw bearings often being a structural type. That's probably the first thing I used AutoCAD for some 25 years ago, so I know it's not like a new feature

 

[dik]

CarlB...

I occasionally do up site plans for some of my projects... thanks for the added info... I was going to see if the method worked on my 2002 version of autocad... glad it's not a new feature...

Dik

 

[IFRs]

The @ construction means "relative from the first point selected" You can use distances, angles, etc. So, Line 0,0 @5,5 draws a line approx. 7.07 units long at a 45 degree angle from the point 0,0. It's worth using help to see what other input variations are accepted.