The command line is expecting a point, not a distance. Here is what I think the confusion is the folowing + a bit of a bug: I know I must be doing something really stupid because this is way too complicated for what I'm trying to do. Construction lines are infinite in both directions and I just want to be able to construct a construction line that is parallel to the known line and offset from it a speciified distance). You are never asked for a point (I'm confused about why you need a point when you have a known line. Type in the offset distance (in feet or inches or whatever), click the line you want the offset to be measured from and then the side of the line you want the offset to be on. All you do is type O for the offset option. But can you tell me what I'm doing wrong above? I have spent over an hour on this and the only solution was turning off the running snaps and picking the point first before entering the offset distance and moving the cursor in the right direction.ĪutoCAD makes this easy. I will work with the Through option and see if I can get that to work. I have come up with the right result by turning off the running snaps before the select a line prompt. The prompt is asking me for the line and then which side of the line to put the offset. The prompt is asking me for the point again, so I vertex snap to the corner. Then I type the offset distance (in this case you can now type the offset distance into the Offset edit box of the Dynamic Input Display.and you can use feet now). I move the cursor to the right in the direction where I want the verticl construction line to appear. So I tried overriding the prompt and instead of providing the offset distance I clicked the corner where my two lines meet. The first prompt is asking for the offset distance. The only difference in the prompts is you don't have to type the O. I then tried using the Construction Line Offset tool. I did get the right result once when I turned off running snaps prior to picking the line. But the one I want, to the right, is not at the offset distance I specified. A vertical construction line appears, sometimes to the right, a few times to the left and several times it is a horizontal line. The next prompt is select the side of the line you want the offset construction to appear. So, since I want a vertical construction line that is offset 113 units in a horizontal direction from a point where a horizontal and a vertical line meet I vertex snap to it. The next prompt is to enter a point (this is what is different than AutoCAD). I typed 113 (cannot enter feet into the Command Line without getting an invalid input warning so must convert everything to inches). The prompt is asking for an offset distance.
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