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    Creating Lines

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    • About Creating Lines
      You can use the Autodesk Civil 3D line creation commands to draft line geometry prior to defining it as alignments or parcels, for example.
    • To Create Lines By Selecting a Start and End Point
    • To Create Lines by Specifying a Range of Point Numbers
    • To Create Lines Through Specified Point Objects
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Point Names
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Northing/Easting Coordinates
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Grid Northing/Easting Coordinates
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Latitudes and Longitudes
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Bearings
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Azimuths
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Angles
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Deflection Angles
    • To Create Lines by Specifying Stations and Offsets
    • To Create Lines by Sideshot
    • To Extend Line Lengths
    • To Create Lines From the End Of an Object
    • To Create Lines Tangent to a Specified Point
    • To Create Perpendicular Lines
    Parent topic: Lines and Curves

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