kliment wrote:
Gustavo, I know that and use it a lot!
What I want is the Autocad method, where you can draw a line which is 235+658+6935 cm long!
Here is a way:
Start drawing the line then type the following into the Tracker:
235ar658+6935+, and then
ENTER
Apparently when a value is highlighted in any field of the Tracker (blue highlight) you can perform an add or subtract operation on it.
When you first type "235" the value is entered but it is not highlighted so you cannot add to it or subtract from it. Going there with your mouse and selecting it does not help you either because the value gets highlighted but apparently the typed value has not been taken in yet by the program. So if you type "a" (by which you activate the Angle field of the Tracker) and then type "r" (by which you re-activate the Distance field of the Tracker, the value will now have been taken by the Distance field of the Tracker and it is also highlighted, meaning you can now perform as many additions and subtractions on it as you wish because after each, the operation is performed and the field stays highlighted. Then you can use ENTER when the calculations are done.
Note: the purpose of using "ar" is to take the focus off the distance field ("a" key) and then putting the focus back onto the Distance field ("r" key). This applies to the Distance field. If you did this in the angle field, you would have to type "ra" or xa" or "ya", with the first letter highlighting another field of the Tracker and the second letter highlighting again the field we want to work in (in this case, the Angle field).
Another way of doing the above (a universal way because it is not specific to any field) is to use TAB, then SHIFT+TAB. TAB activates the next field of the Tracker, while SHIFT+TAB activates the previous field of the Tracker, effectively going back to the needed field. At least on Windows, I don't know about Mac.
I know it is a bit convoluted but it works.
If someone can figure out a better way, I would be interested to know about it.
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