How do I draw in degrees, minutes and seconds?

1. Click on the Settings > Drawing Settings command.
2. On the Drawing Units tab, to the right of Change settings for choose Angular Units from the drop down menu.
3. You can choose multiple settings including Degrees/Minutes/Seconds and Surveyor's Units.

If you are drawing a line, start the Line command.

1. Set a point on the screen as the starting point.
2. Type L for Length in the command line and press Enter.
3. Enter the length of the line and press Enter.
4. Now enter the angle of the line. The angle is entered in one of the following formats. Deg/min/sec: 47d29'15" Surveyor's units: N82dW
5. Press Enter to end the line.

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