Drawing Setup - Orientation (North Rotation)

[strah]

Hi,

Does anyone know what is Civil3D's equivalent for LDT's
Drawing Setup - Orientation?

I've been researching this for few days on and off and could
not find it. I received survey data in one coord system, but
would like to inquiry them in other. In other words I’d like to
read bearings in alternate coordinate system without rotating
objects themselves.

In LDT this is easily achievable and is demonstrated in LDT
tutorial, Lesson 2: Changing Project Settings, step 10 and 11
to be exact.

If I inquiry entities in LDT (e.g. find bearing for a line) before
step 10 and 11 are applied, I get bearing and distance in
current coord system. If I do the same thing after steps 10
and 11 are applied, that is, after the North Orientation is
changed, I get bearing in such modified coordinate system.
This is exactly what I would like to replicate in Civil3D, and I
could not.

I thought that Drawing Settings Transformation tab is the
Civil3D equivalent I was looking for, but in Civil 3D I always get
same bearing no matter what settings I apply in the
Transformation tab.

Anyone has any suggestions? Thanks

Strah

[Joe-Bouza]

If the paper prints were not state plane then they were arbitrary and if you are now putting them in SP then tey are correct.

Ther is NO BPNR in C3d

[AllenJessup]

I'm happy it's not in Civil 3D. I hated it in Softdesk and Land Desktop. It was originally included in DCA/Softdesk ONLY as a way to deal with drawing created in plain AutoCAD that weren't oriented to north.

Allen Jessup