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Survey Units
Cary,

Do you mean line deflection, azimuth, or bearing by the
term "line angle"? If you are talking about bearing
use:

command: line
pick starting point
@123.32<n23d45'32"e

Where 123.32 = distance of line and N23d45'32"E is the
bearing

If you are doing an Azimuth set your units with ddunits
and set "direction" to north and clockwise. Then use
the same as above without the NE in the bearing.

If its line deflection, I copy the line then rotate it
and use the lengthen command to make it the distance I
want. There are a couple of lisp routines out there
for this. I don't do it very often.

Hope that answered your question.

Jim
Dear Jim,

Using the line commend, what is the convention in AutoCAD to input
survey units as the line angle?  There is no example in the Cad help menu.

Thanks

Cary
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