iainlines Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Hi, Dynamic inputs are a new thing for me and I was wondering if I can change the settings to do the following:- When DYN is turned on the on screen prompts are shown, this I like but also, if I highlight a pice of geometry and use grips to stretch it goes all a bit wrong. For example, I highlight a rectangle that I want to stretch out by 10mm, grap a grip, push my cursor in the direction I want to go and press 10.....this leads to the total line length being 10mm. This doesn't happen with DYN off, it works how I think it should but obviously without the on screen prompts. Anyway to combine the two? Thanks Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Do a right-click on DYN button on status bar, chouse Settings... and check if the options available are useful to your case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Change your dynamic input, pointer input settings to Relative Coordinates instead of Absolute Coordinates. Then your stretch will be relative to the point you start it. It's really early here. I can't seem to open my AutoCad. I hope that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainlines Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 Sadly not Dana. It only seems to work as I want it with the DYN button off. Oh well, thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 is your profile correct? I didn't think 2002 had dynamic input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 DYN settings, Dimension Input >Settings> uncheck Resulting Dimension and check Length Change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainlines Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 DBroada...no, now using 2007 Rkent....That nearly works, it's closer. I will have a play around and see what I can come up with. It's still not quite there in that if I try to grip stretch a rectangle, for example, one corner will go in the correct axis and the other corner will go in the incorrect axis even though my cursor is going the same way. Hope that makes sense? If I can't figure it out I will just smash my computer and have a little cry. That should help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 DBroada...no, now using 2007Rkent....That nearly works, it's closer. I will have a play around and see what I can come up with. It's still not quite there in that if I try to grip stretch a rectangle, for example, one corner will go in the correct axis and the other corner will go in the incorrect axis even though my cursor is going the same way. Hope that makes sense? If I can't figure it out I will just smash my computer and have a little cry. That should help It sounds like you should turn on ORTHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainlines Posted April 12, 2012 Author Share Posted April 12, 2012 Nope, sadly still no good. Ortho is pretty much always on anyway. I'll go back to my plan of smashing it. Cheers anyway folks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Use the Tab key to highlight the parameter you want to alter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainlines Posted April 12, 2012 Author Share Posted April 12, 2012 Solved!!! Thank you SLW210. It seems so obvious now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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