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chay
Joined: 20 Dec 2005
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject:
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When I simply draw a line I wish to be 6 metres I have to type in 6.000 as when I ommit the fullstop the line dissapears from the screen capability. How can I change my settings so I can type in 6000 for a line 6 metres long.
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Adesu
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:45 am Post subject:
Re: line dimensions |
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| chay wrote: | | When I simply draw a line I wish to be 6 metres I have to type in 6.000 as when I ommit the fullstop the line dissapears from the screen capability. How can I change my settings so I can type in 6000 for a line 6 metres long. |
Hi chay,what do you mean,with create draw line simple,something like this,see below
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Command: _line Specify first point: 0,0
Specify next point or [Undo]: @6,0
Specify next point or [Undo]: (hit enter)
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chay
Joined: 20 Dec 2005
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Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject:
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I wanted to eliminate using the comma and type in 6000 to represent 6metres instead of 6,0 or 6.0. Need to somehow change the scale as when i type in 6000 line dissapears from screen.
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CarlB
Joined: 27 Sep 2005
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Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:
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If line is "disappearing" from screen you have a problem, unless this is a magic act. If line is extending outside the current view, you just need to change your view to see it. Try the command "zoom" "extents" to change the view (what's shown on the screen) to include all drawn objects.
There is no way to input "6000" and have AutoCAD interpret it as "6", and there should be no reason to do this.
It's possible I still don't understand your question, as most of it doesn't make sense to me. |
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chay
Joined: 20 Dec 2005
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:
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| Thought question was simple but will elaborate for those with difficulties! all drawings I deal with are in MILLIMETRES and so I would prefer to be able to type in my sizes without using a comma or full stop as when I come to small dimensions such as 1.5mm I must type in .0015 rather than simply 1.5. The outline of my drawing may be 6metres so to achieve the 1.5 command I must type 6000 to represent 6metres. Now when I draw line and type in 6000 the zoom is unable to cope withn line size. |
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devitg
Joined: 10 Nov 2005
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:
milimeters to meters |
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Hi Chay , seem to be you have a dwg in meters , as you need to put 0.0015 to draw a 1.5 mm line
If you type 6.000 it will draw a 6 units line
If you type 6000 it will draw a 6000 units line.
And as the dwg is in meters you draw a 6000 meters lines , thats is why it DISSAPEAR, it is 6 Kilometers.
As you made a 1000 bigger outlined dwg
Maybe a solution is to sacle all dwg by 0.001 to cope with milimeters.
please sned me your dwg to devitg@gamil.com |
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