- Once again,
we're staying in our DrawingAccurately.DWG file.
And I've left it zoomed in
to the last rectangle that we drew using coordinates only.
So that was this rectangle here.
What we're going to do now using the crosshair, just click
on each line like so, and you'll see them highlight.
And when you do click on them,
you'll see these little blue squares appear.
They're called grips.
What we'll do is we'll just delete everything there now.
So we've selected the four lines
and it's just a case of right-clicking
and selecting arrays on the shortcut menu.
Now we're going to draw the same rectangle again
in exactly the same location.
But what we're going to utilize now
is DYNMODE Dynamic Input.
Now, if you haven't got Dynamic Input turned on,
you need to go down to your customization icon here.
These little three lines.
Click on it and on the list that pops up on the menu
you want Dynamic Input ticked.
That one there.
Dynamic inputs, about a quarter of the way down.
Click on it.
So it's got a little tick next to it.
Like say, come down to the little three lines
where it says customization again,
and just click to close the customization menu.
DYNMODE or Dynamic Input is here and you need it turned on.
So you need it to be blue like that.
If I right click on it,
you'll see that I can get into Dynamic Input settings.
So if I click on Dynamic Input settings,
you can see there's all these different settings
in the Drafting Settings dialogue box
that I can mess around with.
So I can change all the different coordinate formats.
I can change things like Dimension Input.
I can change Dynamic Prompts.
I can change the Drafting Tooltip Appearance with colors
and size and so on.
I don't change any of it.
I leave it set to its default settings
and I have done ever since Dynamic Input
became available in AutoCAD.
I've never worried about it.
So once you're happy with that click on OK.
Now you'll notice we've only got the grid on
and the Dynamic Input on.
I'm not using any polar tracking, any object snap tracking
or object snaps.
They're all still off right now.
So I'm going to go back
to the Line Command on the draw panel.
Click on Line,
come into the drawing area
and remember our first point again
2000, 2000 and Enter.
And that will start our line off there.
Now because we've got DYNMODE on.
We get all this fantastic information
about our lines as we move the crosshair around.
Now, let me just cancel that for a moment
and hit Escape a couple of times.
The reason I want to do that is
I'm going to turn DYNMODE off.
You don't need to do this,
but I'm just going to show you what happens if DYNMODE
is not on.
And I go to the Line Command and come into the drawing area.
All I've got is specify first point now on the Command line.
there's nothing on my crosshair.
So I type in 2000,2000.
Can you see it appearing on the Command line?
And then I press Enter.
And my line starts from the same place.
Now the nice thing is, I don't need to worry
about canceling the Line Command again.
I can just come down here, click on DYNMODE
and it comes on as you can see.
But I don't get all those nice little angles
and line distances, unfortunately
because I've already drawn that point.
I've picked that point.
So I'm going to hit Escape a couple of times,
make sure that DYNMODE is on
and then go back to my Line Command
and come into the drawing area.
Type the 2000,2000 again
and press Enter.
And this is why I always say to everybody
that I train on AutoCAD, Dynamic Input must be switched on.
You need the icon on your status bar as well
so that you can change the settings if you need to.
I never turn Dynamic Input off ever.
I use it constantly, but the lovely thing is
that's what it gives me.
It gives me all this information here.
So you'll notice I've got a distance
and an angle on the Dynamic Input.
So I'm going to type in 500 in the Distance box.
I'm then going to press the "tab" key.
That'll tab me into the angle box.
I'm going to type that as zero and then press tab again.
And you'll notice it kind of locks them both down.
So that's 500 to the right
at zero degrees going to the east.
And then all I've got to do is left-click once.
And can you see it places that line exactly?
I can do that again.
Now with Dynamic Input,
250, this time in the distance box.
Tab 90 in the angle box.
Tab and again, it locks it down.
Left-click.
I'm now coming along here to the left again,
like we did before.
And you'll notice this time.
Can you see the angle is a lot bigger
and it's kind of over there to the right?
So I'm going to type in the distance 500 and then tab.
And it goes all the way over to that angle
but it's showing me the angle of the line
which is 180 degree.
'Cause it's 180 from where I started at that point.
So it's 500 long but it's 180 degrees going the other way.
Press tab again so they're both locked and then left-click.
And there's your third line segment.
Now because I didn't actually tab across that second time.
Can you see?
It hasn't actually allowed me to put at that angle in.
So what I've got to do there is type in the 500 again
and then tab and then 180 again and then tab.
And then I need to left-click when they're both locked.
Otherwise that line segment won't kick in.
I should be able to just right-click now and Close.
And it takes me back to that rectangle that
I created previously, which is just there like that.
That was the first rectangle we created.
Here's the one that I just re-created
using Dynamic Input or DYNMODE as it's called.