AZIMUTH & distance

[leksboy]

is there a lisp that label the azimuth & distance by picking a line? azimuth start from south angle zero clockwise e.g if
southwest less than 90°....57°23'56" ,
northwest less than 180°....130°56'30" ,
northeast less than 270°....200°10"10" ,
southeast less than 360°... 300°10'10"

[Kent1Cooper]

By "label," do you mean to draw a piece of Text with the information? Or do you just want to see it? The Units settings include the option to measure directions either counterclockwise or clockwise, and to define the direction that is 0 degrees. If you set those appropriately, you can just pick on a Line and look at its azimuth and length in the Properties box, but a routine could certainly be made to do something like make Text out of the information [there's probably something like that in the Discussion Group history, though probably not using that particular combination of starting and progressing directions].

--
Kent Cooper


leksboy wrote...
is there a lisp that label the azimuth & distance by picking a line? azimuth start from south angle zero clockwise....

[Anonymous]

leksboy wrote:
> is there a lisp that label the azimuth & distance by picking a line? azimuth start from south angle zero clockwise e.g if
> southwest less than 90°....57°23'56" ,
> northwest less than 180°....130°56'30" ,
> northeast less than 270°....200°10"10" ,
> southeast less than 360°... 300°10'10"

Try the attached. I use 2, 3 and 1.

[Anonymous]

leksboy wrote:
> is there a lisp that label the azimuth & distance by picking a line? azimuth start from south angle zero clockwise e.g if
> southwest less than 90°....57°23'56" ,
> northwest less than 180°....130°56'30" ,
> northeast less than 270°....200°10"10" ,
> southeast less than 360°... 300°10'10"

Follow up - the lsp routine was used on the attached dwg:

[Skippie]

Can't check your drawing, it must be 2010!
Aren't fields good enough for what you are after?

[leksboy]

yes i want to make a Text with information in it

[leksboy]

i want ANGLE only without direction ( N,E,S,W) starting from SOUTH as zero angle

[Kent1Cooper]

Change the 4 in each (angtos) function to 1 to get degrees/minutes/seconds instead of surveyor's units. Set ANGBASE to 270 and ANGDIR to 1 to have it read from South as 0 degrees and figure angles clockwise. However, I haven't tested the combination of those settings with that routine -- you may need to make some compensation, because some Lisp functions may return angles in default directions, ignoring ANGBASE and/or ANGDIR settings, just as some return points in World Coordinates, ignoring the current Coordinate System.

--
Kent Cooper


leksboy wrote...
i want ANGLE only without direction ( N,E,S,W) starting from SOUTH as zero angle

[Anonymous]

Skippie wrote:
> Can't check your drawing, it must be 2010!
> Aren't fields good enough for what you are after?

It was 2010 - now 2007.