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Defining North...other than up

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Anonymous
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Defining North...other than up

In DCA, you could tell the program that a certain line was to be a certain
bearing, i.e. you could tell it that a line going from SW to NE was to be
due North.

Is there anyway to do that in LDD?

Thanks,

Steve (C3D 2009 LDC)
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Message 2 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Ddunits > Direction and try other. I really don't mess with this, I use Dview twist if I need to have north in another direction besides straight up.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Projects menu, Drawing Setup, Orientation tab. You can set the Base Point
and North Rotation there.

"Steve Adams" wrote in message
news:6397380@discussion.autodesk.com...
> In DCA, you could tell the program that a certain line was to be a certain
> bearing, i.e. you could tell it that a line going from SW to NE was to be
> due North.
>
> Is there anyway to do that in LDD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve (C3D 2009 LDC)
Message 4 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks Jeff!


Jeff Mishler wrote:
> Projects menu, Drawing Setup, Orientation tab. You can set the Base Point
> and North Rotation there.
>
> "Steve Adams" wrote in message
> news:6397380@discussion.autodesk.com...
>> In DCA, you could tell the program that a certain line was to be a certain
>> bearing, i.e. you could tell it that a line going from SW to NE was to be
>> due North.
>>
>> Is there anyway to do that in LDD?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve (C3D 2009 LDC)
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Since LDD is a dead program, my advice is not change the North Rotation.
Civil 3D does not use it. It is too easy to rotate plan objects in a
viewport.

Bill
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

The biggest problem, though, is LDT labels do not rotate to display
correctly and you cannot use UCS's to work around that problem.....which, I
think, was the driving force behind the BP/NR idea.

Steve, Bill's comment does warrant me to advise you to make absolutely sure
you have a North arrow and a known coordinate point labeled. This is so the
drawing can be correctly inserted and rotated to a drawing which doesn't
use, or know about, north rotation.

Jeff

"wfb" wrote in message
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> Since LDD is a dead program, my advice is not change the North Rotation.
> Civil 3D does not use it. It is too easy to rotate plan objects in a
> viewport.
>
> Bill
Message 7 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks Bill and Jeff.

I'll probably stay away from LDD alternate north rotation, and just use lisp
to custom label my lines, leaving the acad coords unchanged.

But this a common problem with survey plats: the field work is often based
on SPC, but you need to use a deed bearing system
for purpose of comparison to the local deeds.


"Jeff Mishler" wrote in message
news:6399404@discussion.autodesk.com...
The biggest problem, though, is LDT labels do not rotate to display
correctly and you cannot use UCS's to work around that problem.....which, I
think, was the driving force behind the BP/NR idea.

Steve, Bill's comment does warrant me to advise you to make absolutely sure
you have a North arrow and a known coordinate point labeled. This is so the
drawing can be correctly inserted and rotated to a drawing which doesn't
use, or know about, north rotation.

Jeff

"wfb" wrote in message
news:6399262@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Since LDD is a dead program, my advice is not change the North Rotation.
> Civil 3D does not use it. It is too easy to rotate plan objects in a
> viewport.
>
> Bill

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