TOTAL Sketch provides several ways to draw or adjust angles in your
sketch:
- In a sketch, click the arrow
next to the Draw icon ( ) in the toolbar, or choose the
Draw panel on the right side of the screen and select either
Area Line or Free‑form Line.
- Click the sketch canvas, or position your cursor and press
Enter to anchor the starting point for your new line and
begin drawing.
- When you're ready to draw an angled line you have two options:
- Draw the length and angle — Type the length of the
line (in your preferred units of measure), press L or
R on the keyboard to indicate whether you want the line to
angle left or right respectively (oriented to the direction of the
line) , and type the degree of the angle. Then, press
Enter to draw and set the angled line. For instance, if
you're drawing in feet, type 10r45 to draw a 10 ft line
that angles 45° to the right.
- Draw the rise and run — Type the length of the
rise of the line and press the directional arrow on your keyboard that
corresponds to the direction of that line, but do not press
Enter. Then, type the run of the line and, again, press the
appropriate directional arrow key on your keyboard to indicate the direction
of the run. If you need to adjust the line, use the directional arrows on
the keyboard to fine tune the line length and/or angle before pressing
Enter (However, you can always switch to Modify mode and make further
adjustments later). When you're ready to anchor the end point of the angled
line, press Enter to set it. For example, to draw a line
with a rise of 10 down and a run of 15 right, you'd type
10, down ( ), 15,
right ( ), followed by the
Enter key.