Accudraw in Autocad?
bob
I've been using Autocad for about a year now after five
years on Microstation. I was told that the new O-tracking
in AC2000 would simulate Microstation's Accudraw. It doesn't. :-(
Is there a routine or some command that I'm not aware of that
will give me the functionality of Accudraw in AC2000?
I miss it so.....
TIA
JJ
why not use either "ORTHO" or "@coords"(polar and relative coords)?
what other functionality is there?
Excuse my quick dismissal of Accudraw its been a pain to me, along
with the rest of Microstation. I like the fence options though except
the 101 verticies limit. Anyway......
J
bob
function that I'm looking for. Here's the deal - if you need to draw
or move or stretch or whatever to an existing line or object, ortho
with perpendicular snap does the trick just fine. BUT, when the
object you need to align with does not intersect with your orthogonal
path of travel what do you do? You either draw a construction line to
give you something to snap to (a waste of time), or use O-tracking
(which is clunky and slow at best).
Accudraw removes ALL doubt about what commands to use and works in ALL
situations. You just lock your axis (ortho), then snap to any element
anywhere and you're done. It is fast, fast, fast! No construction
lines, no waiting for O-tracking to kick in (and then you still have
to move your cursor to the intersection point).
Understand that I'm only talking about Accurdraw's alignment
capabilities. It has MANY other features which are irrelevant to my
quest at this time. I've been using Autocad for about a year and
haven't yet been able to find a command or lisp or whatever than will
allow me to draw/edit and align objects as quickly and effortlessly as
Accudraw. I suprised that there is no lisp or add-on or whatever that
can perform the same task. It's really so very simple!