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Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!

Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!

Hi Alex,

Best way is as Michael has mentioned however, you can also save measurements. This is a "quick and dirty" method of creating measurements without having to set up text and dimension styles however not as customizable.

Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!

Thanks for the help guys, I should have been more clear with my question. Its not really drafting dimensions I'm looking for, TBC does a great job of this. its giving things physical dimensions. in Autodesk products I have the ability to create a rectangle or square with X and Y dimensions very quickly, or a line that is a specific length, or maybe a line a given angle off another. so far I cannot figure out how to do this quickly. You can struggle through some of in with line-string commands but nothing is very easy. hope that makes sense. 

Thanks again!

Hi Alex,

Best way is as Michael has mentioned however, you can also save measurements. This is a "quick and dirty" method of creating measurements without having to set up text and dimension styles however not as customizable.

Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!

Alex, you should be able to right click while creating the linestring for the next point on the line

Thanks for the help guys, I should have been more clear with my question. Its not really drafting dimensions I'm looking for, TBC does a great job of this. its giving things physical dimensions. in Autodesk products I have the ability to create a rectangle or square with X and Y dimensions very quickly, or a line that is a specific length, or maybe a line a given angle off another. so far I cannot figure out how to do this quickly. You can struggle through some of in with line-string commands but nothing is very easy. hope that makes sense. 

Thanks again!

Hi Alex,

Best way is as Michael has mentioned however, you can also save measurements. This is a "quick and dirty" method of creating measurements without having to set up text and dimension styles however not as customizable.

Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!

Thank you Erik! The Delta X and Y helps a whole bunch, I had no idea that existed 

Alex, you should be able to right click while creating the linestring for the next point on the line

Thanks for the help guys, I should have been more clear with my question. Its not really drafting dimensions I'm looking for, TBC does a great job of this. its giving things physical dimensions. in Autodesk products I have the ability to create a rectangle or square with X and Y dimensions very quickly, or a line that is a specific length, or maybe a line a given angle off another. so far I cannot figure out how to do this quickly. You can struggle through some of in with line-string commands but nothing is very easy. hope that makes sense. 

Thanks again!

Hi Alex,

Best way is as Michael has mentioned however, you can also save measurements. This is a "quick and dirty" method of creating measurements without having to set up text and dimension styles however not as customizable.

Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!

Thank you Erik! The Delta X and Y helps a whole bunch, I had no idea that existed 

Alex, you should be able to right click while creating the linestring for the next point on the line

Thanks for the help guys, I should have been more clear with my question. Its not really drafting dimensions I'm looking for, TBC does a great job of this. its giving things physical dimensions. in Autodesk products I have the ability to create a rectangle or square with X and Y dimensions very quickly, or a line that is a specific length, or maybe a line a given angle off another. so far I cannot figure out how to do this quickly. You can struggle through some of in with line-string commands but nothing is very easy. hope that makes sense. 

Thanks again!

Hi Alex,

Best way is as Michael has mentioned however, you can also save measurements. This is a "quick and dirty" method of creating measurements without having to set up text and dimension styles however not as customizable.

Hello all, I am looking for some help with some TBC cad workflows. I use TBC a little different then most, most of my models and surfaces are "shoot from the hip" for lack of a better term. I rarely work from prints or engineering cad data, mostly from original ground TOPO's. I do all of the design myself in TBC. My question is, in most other cad products you have the ability to design and dimension things like line length, rectangle size, and angles very quickly when designing, you are typically prompted for this info. I cant seem to find this functionality on TBC anywhere.. Is there a command or maybe some macros to allow this I am missing? 

Thanks!