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For some strange reason my lines always draw up from my first point. From memory the angle of a line is specified based on the cursor location after you specify a start point for a line.

For example, with ortho ON, i click line > selected a random point on the screen > move my cursor to the left so as to draw a line @ 180 degress > type 100 to draw a line 100mm @ 180 deg. Icad draws the line 100mm @ 90 degrees instead.

No matter which angle/direction i move my cursor after selecting the first point it draws my line at 90 deg. i have to manually specify the line angle by going Line > A > type angle > then type length and enter.

I have tried creating a new user profiles, tried new blank drawings.

I cant uninstall and reinstall because i do not have permission to do such things on my work computer

Any suggestions are more than appreciated.

I've found ICAD often wants me to be more specific. ACAD may know what you're asking for, but it sounds like ICAD would rather you typed in the information ACAD accepts as implied.

In short, try entering the desired endpoint as "@100<180" instead of moving your cusor and just typing "100." This should be valid syntax for ACAD as well as ICAD, and is totally independent from where your cursor is at the time. Note the syntax is always @dist<angle, never @dist>angle. ("<" means "angle" not "is less than" in this case.)