Posted by ClaudeQC on Jul 29, 2012; 1:41am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Draw-line-by-only-specifying-length-tp5706943p5706944.html


Hello tesco,


On 2012-07-28 19:05, tesco [via LibreCAD] wrote:

 >
 > 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").
 >

- I think the "Relative Polar Co-ordinates" can do the job.

- The syntax is the following:

        @distance<angle


Claude