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If you combine work in different angle units (e.g. degrees and grades), you will probably need to setup your macros and LISP applications so that they use angles in a common, consistent format - in degrees, or alternatively in degrees, minutes and seconds.
By default, relative coordinates are entered as:
@length< anglewhich counts with the angle value in the currently set angle units - if you switch to grades or radians, this format will no longer work.
Therefore use a special coordinate format:
@length<< anglewhich always uses angles entered in degrees (even when you have e.g. grades as current angle units).
Another option - allowing to enter angles also in surveying minutes and seconds - is the format:
@length< angledminutes'seconds"giving e.g.:
@500<45d15'25" @500<45dThis format interprets the angles always in degrees. Similarly you can force entering grades (100g) or radians (1.5r) wherever AutoCAD prompts for angles.
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3.3.2009
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applies to: AutoCAD · AutoCAD LT · AutoCAD Architecture · Civil 3D · AutoCAD Map 3D · AutoCAD Mechanical ·