This isn't something that happens often, but the other day we were handed a sketch of a house plan w/ dimensions and we needed to input it to start working drawings.
To start laying out I thought to use the polygon to make the exterior foot print, use the Walls from Polygon tool and go from there.
The problem I found is there seems to be no way to do true keyboard entry. Using the mouse and the data display bar allows one to do relative movements (i.e. move 12' @ -90? from there move 14' @ 0? and so on) but one has to click the mouse at each vertex.
Using the Create polygon (dbl clk on the palette tool) would allow one to not touch the mouse, but instead of specifying a starting point and then adding vertices relative to that starting point ( see i.e. last paragraph). I don't really want to turn the sketch into a grid to figure out the actual grid points of the vertices.
I see two possibly easy fixes:
When using the data display bar have one enter accept the value and another (say Cmd-Enter) set the vertex and start you on the next point.
In the Create Polygon tool have one option for real coordinates and another for relative.
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This isn't something that happens often, but the other day we were handed a sketch of a house plan w/ dimensions and we needed to input it to start working drawings.
To start laying out I thought to use the polygon to make the exterior foot print, use the Walls from Polygon tool and go from there.
The problem I found is there seems to be no way to do true keyboard entry. Using the mouse and the data display bar allows one to do relative movements (i.e. move 12' @ -90? from there move 14' @ 0? and so on) but one has to click the mouse at each vertex.
Using the Create polygon (dbl clk on the palette tool) would allow one to not touch the mouse, but instead of specifying a starting point and then adding vertices relative to that starting point ( see i.e. last paragraph). I don't really want to turn the sketch into a grid to figure out the actual grid points of the vertices.
I see two possibly easy fixes:
When using the data display bar have one enter accept the value and another (say Cmd-Enter) set the vertex and start you on the next point.
In the Create Polygon tool have one option for real coordinates and another for relative.
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