line property angles seemed to be displayed in bearings. is there a way to change this to display relative to true north?
thanks, oa
Darren,
This might be a place to check:
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Similar to this, you can also fix your labels to show north azimuth. Pretty sure they are in bearings by default.
Darren,
Please clarify what you want to do. Are you trying to label a line with Azimuth? How about a screen grab showing us what you'd like things to look like.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
OK, Darren, then it looks like the easiest will be to convert them by hand. Amazingly, I can't find a way to simply label a line with an Azimuth. I thought that would be the easiest way, and I'm sure it can be done, but I wasn't able to find a way.
Any data collector usually has a quick-n-easy function to convert between bearings and azimuths, and there's probably a conversion App for your Smartphone. Civil 3D has a really cool Quick Calc that should be able to do those conversions quickly and easily, but I can't figured out how to use it.
Sorry I'm not much help.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
I would have thought that creating a Label Style was all that would be needed.
However that doesn't work when I try it. From 0° to 180° it labels the line at 90° 00' 00". From 180° to 360° it's labeled 270° 00' 00".
Allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
The math is fairly easy. In the NE quadrant you've already got the angle. In the SE quadrant subtract the angle in the Bearing from 180°. In SW add the angle to 180° and in NW subtract the angle from 360° I had to do that all the time when leading a Survey party. It helps to have a calculator that converts decimal angles to DMS.
Quick Calc Quadrant is a Quadrant Snap to a circle.
Allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
I found out that the Label Style does work. My drawing had some serious damage. That's why I got those results.
Allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
Allen,
I'm not sure how Quick Calc Quadrant works, but that would sorta explain the preposterous numbers I got.
After your success with Azimuth labelling, I steeled my resolve and figured out how to label a line with an Azimuth:
For a while, I thought I'd punched a Tar Baby on this topic.
So Darren, to answer your original question, I don't know how to get Properties to show an Azimuth, but a Line Label is definitely do-able.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Good work Dave. Whatch those old references. The Quick Calculator is just a GUI for the geometry calculator. See attached.
allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
Allen,
Thanks for the Geometry Calculator Manual. Did you write it? It's brilliant!
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
No Dave. I compiled it from various AutoCAD help files and added a little explanation here and there. This was a long time ago when Help files were truly helpful. I don't think I could do the same thing today.
Allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
Yes. That will work. However I stay away from the Units dialog. I use the recommended AECDWGSETUP. I'd be worried what changing the orientation would do to Civil if someone forgot to set it back to 0. I don't let anyone here use UCS for the same reason.
Allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager