Marking a distance to locate a design feature

[Anonymous]

I'm having trouble, when designing and sketching: How to determine a certain distance from a wall let say a parallel wall 4 meters from the drawn wall (or a border line or another feature of the design for that matter ). Trying to locate a door 10 c"m from a corner, such matters of finding a certain point in the plan: distance known or determined while designing.Is there a tool, help line or such, to enable snapping to such exact point.

[NCornia]

Activate the tool you are going to draw with. Hover your mouse over the corner you want to reference from making sure the smart cursor tuns into a checkmark, filled pencil, etc.. If you want to place a door 10cm to the right of a corner type the letter x, a coordinate window will appear. Type 100, then +. A temporary guideline will appear at 10cm to the right of the corner. Place the object with accuracy.

If you are working from a corner on the right and want the door 10cm to the left, hover over the corner, type: x -100 +.

Up from a corner type: y 100 +. Down from a corner type: y -100 + .


Some in the forum have also suggested creating a User Origin and then type the coordinates from there but, I find the method i described to be more efficient for me.

[andrewzarb]

to supplement NCornia's reply,
If you want to move the item a particular distance at an angle you can also use the r coordinate with the a angle setting.

If it helps, you can also place a user origin to work from.

[Anonymous]

Thanks . very helpful

[Anonymous]

NCornia wrote:
If you are working from a corner on the right and want the door 10cm to the left, hover over the corner, type: x -100 +.

Just x 100- [enter]

[Barry Kelly]

s2art wrote:

NCornia wrote:
If you are working from a corner on the right and want the door 10cm to the left, hover over the corner, type: x -100 +.

Just x 100- [enter]

I think that is an imperial units problem that metric users don't have.
For imperial users I don't think the x 100- [enter] will work.
I think they need to do x -100+ [enter] as NCornia suggested or x 100-- [enter].

Barry.

[Eduardo Rolon]

for Imperial units both are correct

x -100+ [enter] as NCornia suggested or x 100-- [enter]

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:

s2art wrote:

NCornia wrote:
If you are working from a corner on the right and want the door 10cm to the left, hover over the corner, type: x -100 +.

Just x 100- [enter]

I think that is an imperial units problem that metric users don't have.
For imperial users I don't think the x 100- [enter] will work.
I think they need to do x -100+ [enter] as NCornia suggested or x 100-- [enter].

Barry.

Thanks for making that distinction. We were talking metric units, but good to let those imperialists know that they're different.

[Anonymous]

Hi Hagit,
Good to see a fellow AC users in Israel,
I thought I was one out of another five HA HA!
Well, you actually asked two different questions
that I would deal with in a number of really daft simple ways:

1st, make sure you open and dock the COORDINATES & CONTROL BOX
pallets (Window>Palettes>...)

2nd, you can also use the floating TRACKER, if you don't mind that little
blue box floating around...

Make sure your keyboard is set to EN and not HE -
So you can input those X, Y,Z, A & R coordinates rather
than Hebrew text.

Now, actually placing stuff in the right place relative to existing elements:
With walls (parallel), I usually choose the PARALEL (or Offset) drafting
method, select the wall tool, click two points on the reference wall,
pull out a bit in the desired offset direction and then use R (radius)
to define the exact distance.

For doors and windows, I just throw them into the wall, then move them
to a corner or known starting point, and then push them exactly to
the right place (Using X, Y or R).

You can also just draw a couple of manual guidelines and snap to those.
Old trick but still works.
🙂
Gil

[Anonymous]

Hi Gil,
Thank you so much for your explanations, somehow I missed your generous post. most helpful. I am,for a while, looking for Israeli mate . Would you know where I can find detailed instructions on changing into Hebrew? Somehow my program is not Hebrew programmed although bought here.

Gil wrote:
Hi Hagit,
Good to see a fellow AC users in Israel,
I thought I was one out of another five HA HA!
Well, you actually asked two different questions
that I would deal with in a number of really daft simple ways:

1st, make sure you open and dock the COORDINATES & CONTROL BOX
pallets (Window>Palettes>...)

2nd, you can also use the floating TRACKER, if you don't mind that little
blue box floating around...

Make sure your keyboard is set to EN and not HE -
So you can input those X, Y,Z, A & R coordinates rather
than Hebrew text.

Now, actually placing stuff in the right place relative to existing elements:
With walls (parallel), I usually choose the PARALEL (or Offset) drafting
method, select the wall tool, click two points on the reference wall,
pull out a bit in the desired offset direction and then use R (radius)
to define the exact distance.

For doors and windows, I just throw them into the wall, then move them
to a corner or known starting point, and then push them exactly to
the right place (Using X, Y or R).

You can also just draw a couple of manual guidelines and snap to those.
Old trick but still works.
🙂
Gil