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nickh14008722
nickh14008722
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October 31, 2017
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Line segment angle settings

  • October 31, 2017
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I am trying to draw lines at specific angles that correspond to azimuths on a map (e.g. 90° would be east and the angle rotates clockwise). Is there anyway to change the settings of the line segment tool so its angles matches this convention instead of the weird one it currently had (90° is north and angle rotates counterclockwise????).

Thanks!

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    Jacob Bugge
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    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 1, 2017

    Nick,

    I am afraid you are facing (some of the remaining parts of) the use of cartesian coordinates which are (or was) prevalent among vector drawing applications. When CS5 came out, the Y axis was reversed; before that it was positive upwards.

    But maybe you can (repeatedly) rotate copies of the first line (with a negative angle, of course).

    Some were sorry about the Y axis reversal, but we found ways to unreverse it so you can still work with the original direction.

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