AutoCAD 2008 - Tutorial 09

thanks so much.. this is so much help..

The reason of that happening I think is because whether you change the units to feet, it will still draw in Inches. So, in other for you to have 50 ft when typed 50, you have add the apostrophe(50') other wise it will always draw in inches.

thanks a lot. but what i don't understand is i typed "UNITS" and changed them to feet. so if you just typed 50 instead of 50' shouldn't it automatically be 50 feet? thanks.

AutoCAD defaults to inches when you're in architectural units. By typing in just 50, you'll get 50 inches. If you want feet type 50', not just 50. Here are some other correct ways...

50'-6" (fifty feet six inches)
50'6" (fifty feet six inches)
50.5' (same at fifty feet six inches)
50' (feet)
50" (inches)

Hope this helps.

why is it when I change units to architectural and change the units to feet, so i want to draw a line that's 50 ft so i type in 50 in line command, it still comes out in inches. when i dimension it comes out as 4'-2" when i want 50'-0". drivin me crazy! please help. thanks!!!

LOL JD. you could have had fun had you said that the min/sec refer to the time it takes to make a line, or a rectangle, etc... :)

You're okay, eggybob :)

Thanks again, Cadeeze :)

Just in case your not kidding... in surveying (Civil Engineering) each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and they, in turn, into 60 seconds. This is unrealated to time measurement. It is just another way to express an exacting angle and you can think of it as an "imperial" measurement. You know, the ones that make less mathematical sense than the Metric standards we refuse to adopt here in the US. Yeah, let's measure time in 1/60th's, and a mixtue of 1/8ths, 1/12ths, 1/16ths and others...

this was very useful thank you for sharing :)

thanks for sharing your knowlegde....

sorry im very new to auto cad so i wont be useing it.. i just dont understand how an angle can be measured in minutes and/or seconds? i dont underestand where time comes into an angle/lines measurement :).. thanks alot for repleying.