Well, my numberpad doesn't accept any entries while I hold down the shift key (maybe it works on your Mac, but not on my MS).

However, I noticed that once the desired axis lights up (x in red, y in green) I can release the shift key and the line will stay on the desired axis, then I can enter the length.

Problem solved, thank you all!

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Mikar

Hi Dave,

thanks for your explenations!

Let me just skip back to my initial question. The problem I have is that I cannot type the desired lenght while holding down the shift key to keeop the axis locked. With 'straight line' I ment locked to x or y axis.

Any idea how to do that?

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Mikar

Hi all,

what I can do is:

• hold down the 'shift'-key to draw a straight line locked to x or y axis

or

• type a number while pointing the line's end somewhere in oder to draw a specific length.

But I simply cannot get both features working together at the same time.

Is there a way?

Cheers
Mikar

Great tips (an so much effort put into explaining)! Thank you all very much!

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Mikar

Hi all,

whenever I try to rotate a texture with the texture-->position-->green-handle-thingy the texture starts scaling at the same time. Is there a way to rotate only (e.g. by pressing a key or keyboard entry) so that it doesn't rotate and scale at the same time?

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Mikar

Ah, I see! Thank you for explaining!

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Mikar

Hi folks,

in a component I want to use the attribute "FACEAREA" for using in a report. But for a face with the dimension e.g. 1x1m instead of yielding the expected result 1m² it produces a result off by factor 1.550003. Is this a bug? Please see image attached to see my problem. (I know I could amend that through deviding the result by 1.550003, but I would like to now why this happens). Thank you!

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Mikar

Great help, thankyou! I guess the second one was the one I was looking for

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Mikar

Hi folks,

I recently came across an extension which deals with imported cad/dwg floor plans. The extension automatically creates faces between all imported cad-lines, so that walls can be extruded right away without needing to trace anything manually.

Now I can't seem to find this extension in the mists of the www. Does anyone know what extension I'm talking about and can direct me to where I can find it?

Thank you in advance!

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Mikar

Thank you very much!