Posted by tesco on Jul 28, 2012; 11:05pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Draw-line-by-only-specifying-length-tp5706943.html

Hi,

It has been about 7 years since I last used autocad. I remember that when drawing lines I could click on a point, then move my cursor to the general direction that I want the line to go (snapping orthogonally usually), then simply type a number and hit enter and the line would be drawn to that length.

How can I do this in librecad? The snapping is fine, but the only way I have found to draw the line to an exact measurement is with coords (like "@0,50"). I just simply want to use my mouse to get the direction of the line and have to type the length only ("50").

Thanks!