Good points.
What I do with a messy project like this is xref, scale and rotate the
pieces in and set my ucs to each piece then save a named ucs for each
orientation. Often each building has a different orientation.
Danny P. wrote:
>Dave/others,
>
>Of all the potentially hundreds of drawings within an architectural set,
>there is only ONE drawing that needs to show the building rotated on it's
>site relative to true north, the site plan. So all 5 - 2000 other drawings
>in our set are drawn in an orientation that's easy for us, typically with
>the building orthogonal to the sheet so that it fits.
>
>It's easy for us just to use the WCS that comes as a default, so that we're
>never concerned with UCSs that can make xrefing difficult. There are only a
>few reasons to use another UCS for our drawings, most of which have nothing
>to do with site orientation.
>
>Typically civil drawings show a building some distance away from 0,0 which
>has actually caused Architectural Desktop to function poorly. They
>recommmend we draw close to 0,0, which I usually recommend anyway.
>
>As another poster mentioned, we typically need only a property line to
>properly orient our buildings on the site. As you mentioned, we usually
>coordinate some control point on the site, either a bench mark or corner of
>the property that we say is fixed. We use this point to rotate the building
>on the site plan using a known angle. I would recommend that you discuss
>with the architects early on to determine what the control point will be,
>and it will make coordination easier. Put the control point and rotation
>line real big on a non-plot layer so that there's no confusion for either
>party.
>
>We understand and can accomodate most civil drawings because we understand
>that you like to use a different unit system, and different orientations.
>That's ok. It's simply easier for us to modify your drawings to suit our
>needs than it is to do our entire set with other rotations and UCSs.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Danny Polkinhorn
>Perkins & Will
>Atlanta
>
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>"Dave Walsh"
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>>Hi - I do not know if this the correct group to post this in or not, but
>>here it goes:
>>We the civil/survey have to coordinate our drawings to the
>>arch/mep/structural/everyone else.
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>>They naturally use architectural units and set up an arbitrary north based
>>upon the column lines while we use decimal units and set up on some other
>>north. Once we get past the object enablers so that everyone can handle
>>scaling the aec objects, there seems to be a running problem of
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>coordinating
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>>ucs/wcs.
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>>One solution is to draw some sort of control device - nodes/lines etc that
>>can be inserted into each drawing and used to align the different
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>drawings.
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>>Any other solutions?
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>>Thanks.
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