4 Sided Building

Often only one or two sides of a building are surveyed in the field. This routine completes the building by drawing the other sides. 4 Sided Building creates a parallelogram given two connecting lines, or given a polyline with two segments. With two lines, there is an option to make the parallelogram as a polyline or as four lines. When only one side is defined, the program will prompt for the building width. Besides using linework to define the sides, you can use points by entering P at the prompt to switch to points mode.

Prompts

Options/Points/<Pick a line or polyline>: pick a line
Pick another side (Enter for none): pick a line
Convert the lines into a polyline [<Yes>/No]? press Enter
Options/Points/<Pick a line or polyline>: press Enter
Entering O for options lets you choose whether or not to be prompted to set the new polyline width, and for whether to default the width to make a square building with one sided input.

Pulldown Menu Location: Survey
Keyboard Command: 4sided
Prerequisite: A polyline with two segments or two adjoining lines