On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, tyrel [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Howdy!
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> I used AutoCAD years ago and was very familiar with the command line.
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> I'm trying to use LibreCAD to draw a building, but I'm having issues entering the lengths of lines like I want.
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> For example, I would like to draw a line from the current point to the right 43 feet 9 inches. I would expect to be able to do something like: @43'-9<0, but I've tried various combinations of that and I get Expression Syntax error no matter how I do that.
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> Is this possible in LibreCAD?
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> Thanks,
> Tyrel


Does your copy of LibreCAD have a help manual? Mine doesn't.

The only way I can see is to do it using absolute coordinates such as 0,0<ENTER> 525,0<ENTER>

That will give you a horizontal line along the x axis if your units are set to inches then that is 43' 9"