From the course: AutoCAD: Using the Command Line
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Text input - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Using the Command Line
Text input
- [Instructor] We're staying in the CommandLine.dwg file for this particular video and what we're going to look at in the command line is text input. Text input is when you type something in AutoCAD and it goes into a dialog box or perhaps a setting or a variable, but also when you type it can go into the command line. If I come down here and click in the command line, I get a cursor and the text input I might put in there might be the word line for the line command. As soon as I do that, you will see the suggestion menu. We'll cover that later. But you'll notice now I can select whatever I want. Can you see there, I can put in whatever command I want and if I slide up, there's the line command at the top. So I click on line like so. Now that's my text input, and you can see there now that it's prompting me to specify the first point for my line, so I might use something like an object snap there, click, and there's my line there, click again, and enter to finish the line command…
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