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Other Specifies a direction other than east, north, west, or south. Enter a
specific compass angle to treat as the 0 angle.
Angle Direction
Indicates the direction from the 0 angle in which you enter and in which the
program displays positive angle values: counterclockwise or clockwise.
Area
Indicates the width and length in full-scale units of what you plan to draw.
This setting limits the area of the drawing covered by grid dots when the grid
is turned on. When limits checking is turned on with the LIMITS command,
this setting also restricts the coordinates you can enter to within the rectangular
area. You can change the drawing area and turn limits checking on and off
with the LIMITS command.
NEW Command Prompt
Quick Reference
See also:
■ Overview of Starting a New Drawing
Summary
Enter a tilde (~) at the prompt to display the Select Template dialog box (a
standard file selection dialog box).
If you turned off the display of the Create New Drawing dialog box, or if
FILEDIA is set to 0, NEW displays the following prompt:
List of Prompts
The following prompts are displayed.
Enter template file name or [. (for none)] <current>: Enter a name, enter a period
(.), or press ENTER
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