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- "BASELINE"
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- This is the only documentation for BASELINE. Please read it
- before you begin using BASELINE, or if you have problems with the
- routine.
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- **INSTALLATION**
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- To install this macro for use with AutoCAD simply copy
- the contents of this diskette into the directory that your
- AutoCAD resides.
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- **LOADING**
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- To load this macro for use, get into an AutoCAD drawing and type:
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- (LOAD "BASELINE").
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- If you aren't in the directory that contains AutoCAD when you try
- to load BASELINE, it will report that BASELINE is not found. To
- load it from another directory, specify the path with two
- backslashes instead of one.
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- Example: You're in the directory \ACAD\DRAW. To load BASELINE
- from the ACAD directory, type:
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- (LOAD "\\ACAD\\BASELINE").
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- It will respond with the prompt: Pick a point to base dimensions
- from:.
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- Pick a point you wish all your horizontal and vertical baseline
- dimensions to be calculated from.
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- Next it will prompt: Enter text height:.
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- Pick a text height to be used in your dimensions. It will then
- return C:BASELINE, and is now ready to use.
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- **Using**
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- To use this macro, type: BASELINE.
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- It will ask for the first point and then the second point. The
- macro will determine whether the dimension is vertical or
- horizontal by checking to see if your points are more in a
- vertical manner or a horizontal manner. The dimensions that are
- placed are in the units and the accuracy you've specified with
- the UNITS command. If you wish to respecify the origin at which
- your dimensions are based, type: BASEORG.
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- **Automatic**
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- If you have an ACAD.LSP file, you can add the BASELINE.LSP file
- to the end of ACAD.LSP. BASELINE will automatically load each
- time you enter the drawing editor. If you don't have an ACAD.LSP
- file, you can rename the BASELINE.LSP file to ACAD.LSP and get
- the same results.
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- If you do either one of the above, the prompt for the base point
- for your dimensions may be asked before you are ready to specify
- it. If so, input a random point and when you get ready to use
- BASELINE, type BASEORG to respecify an origin to dimension from.
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- End