coordinates

[Omar44]

I'm hoping someone can help w/ this.

When I pick a point in space, I want my coordinates to track the length and angle of a line from that point, not from the spot marked from 0,0.

My coords setting is at 2. The manual tells me that this should track the line that way. Is there something else that I am missing a setting on???


Thanks
JG

[VERYCIVILDRAFTER]

I'll go over the steps again, just incase. :?

1) Hit the F6 key until <Coords On> appears in command prompt line

2) Set "coords" to "2"

3) draw a line.
pick begining of line
Coords should be tracking your first pick point by distance and angle.

[VERYCIVILDRAFTER]

It could be confusing if your "UNITS" are set to "Decimal Degrees". However it is working if you have a carrot "<" in your coord display.

the format will look something like this
1152.83< 310.72 ,0.00
the first number is the distance change, the second is the angle, the third number is the elevation.

So the number above reads 1152.83' from my pick point @ an angle of 310.72 degrees (down and right) from my pick point at an elevation of 0.0.

[Azadhel]

Did it work?! Did it work?!

[csiarch]

V.C.D.: "Carrot" = rabbit food; Caret = Uppercase 6 (^) Which is which?

[Omar44]

Did it work?! Did it work?!

No it did not......I am missing the caret in the coords display. I am using Decimal degrees, and tried changing it to architectual, but that did not work either...........Any suggestions?

[Omar44]

All right, I've figured out part of the problem.

If you right click on the coords display you can pick absolute or relative. I want this set to relative, the problem is as soon as I drag the cursor over the drawing area, it kicks me back into absolute reading from 0,0.

Any idea why this is defaulting back to absolute?

[VERYCIVILDRAFTER]

To: Omar44
Are you using a third party software with autocad?


To: csiarch
Well actually its neither a carrot or a caret. To be technical about it, it's the "That Little Right Pointing Arrow Thingee on the Comma Key"

[Omar44]

No I am using a liscensed version of acad2004

[csiarch]

VCD: Yeah, I know what it is.... just a lame attempt at being cute. Actually, it's a left arrow, located at hexadecimal address 003C on Western coded keyboards.

[Omar44]

Well now that we figured out where the caret is on the Keyboard, Can either of you fix my problem???

[architech]

I wonder ... :roll: ... if want you want is the F10 key .....
The polar setting ....

Try that ...
And the settings for that is F11 on your keyboard .... :?

:shock: .. Not sure if I hit it ... let me know ...

Later guy. :?:

[VERYCIVILDRAFTER]

:D Sorry I'll try and focus, csiarch's sense of humor cracks me up.

I pulled this out of AutoCAD help.

When you are editing objects, you can cycle through the three types of coordinate display by pressing F6 or CTRL+D.

Maybe you just need to cycle through your options while drawing your line to get your AutoCAD to behave. Since F6 hasn't been working maybe the CTRL+D option will.

If this doesn't work... I don't know what to do for you. :oops:

[Omar44]

I tried your cntrl D option.......It works as far as getting the correct Relative position as long as my mouse is still, as soon as I move the mouse it jumps back to absolute!

Thanks to all for your input, I think I'll try re-installing the program!