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■ If a down-arrow icon follows the prompt, press the DOWN ARROW
key until a dot is displayed next to the option. Press Enter.
■ Press the UP ARROW key to access recent coordinates, or right-click
and click Recent Input to access the coordinates from a shortcut menu.
NOTE For dimensional input, after you type a value in an input field and press
Tab, the field then displays a lock icon, and the cursor is constrained by the value
that you entered.
To correct typing errors in dynamic input tooltips
■ When a dynamic input tooltip displays the red error outline, the current
entry is selected. Type over the selected text to replace it. You can also use
the RIGHT ARROW, LEFT ARROW, Backspace, and Delete keys to correct
your entry. After you make the correction, press Tab, comma (,), or a left
angle bracket (<) to remove the red outline and complete the coordinates.
■ If you type the @ or # or * prefixes in a pointer input tooltip and then want
to change it, you can just type the character you want. There is no need
to backspace.
To specify relative or absolute coordinates in pointer input tooltips
■ To enter absolute coordinates when relative coordinates are displayed in
the tooltip, enter # to temporarily override the DYNPICOORDS system
variable.
■ To enter relative coordinates when absolute coordinates are displayed,
enter @ to temporarily override the DYNPICOORDS system variable.
■ To enter absolute world coordinate system (WCS) coordinates, enter *.
NOTE During pointer input, you can use the shortcut menu to access the # and
* prefixes.
To change the color, size, or transparency of tooltips
1 Click Tools menu ➤ Drafting Settings.
2 In the Drafting Settings dialog box, Dynamic Input tab, click Drafting
Tooltip Appearance.
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