I've been using Datacad for years, and I have a very dumb question about something that peeves me.
For the sake of precision, I've been manually inputting distances and angles using the num-pad. <space> distance <CR> angle <CR> 8' 6-1/2" at 90-degrees.
For-instance, in laying-out an entire floorplan of corners, windows, doors and offsets, that's a lot of keystokes.
Is there a method to keyboard-in the distance, and indicate the direction using the arrow-keys or a mouse-gesture? Arrow-keys would be ideal since they adjacent to the num-pad.
I wondered about this since in Sketchup you can indicate and lock the 'axis' using the arrow-keys.
Since in residential construction almost everything is at right-angles, I spent an inordinate amount of finger-strokes typing-in "90', or '180' or '-90' to indicate direction. One reason I was thinking about a programmable gaming-keyboard is I could program m-keys for these common vector-directions
- Using Datacad version-13 in Windows 8.1, standard HP keyboard.
For the sake of precision, I've been manually inputting distances and angles using the num-pad. <space> distance <CR> angle <CR> 8' 6-1/2" at 90-degrees.
For-instance, in laying-out an entire floorplan of corners, windows, doors and offsets, that's a lot of keystokes.
Is there a method to keyboard-in the distance, and indicate the direction using the arrow-keys or a mouse-gesture? Arrow-keys would be ideal since they adjacent to the num-pad.
I wondered about this since in Sketchup you can indicate and lock the 'axis' using the arrow-keys.
Since in residential construction almost everything is at right-angles, I spent an inordinate amount of finger-strokes typing-in "90', or '180' or '-90' to indicate direction. One reason I was thinking about a programmable gaming-keyboard is I could program m-keys for these common vector-directions
- Using Datacad version-13 in Windows 8.1, standard HP keyboard.