I'm having a problem understanding the relationship between several settings related to angles.
I have my environment set such that North is the 0 angle and the direction is clockwise.
When I begin to draw a line with polar tracking on, after I click the first point, the polar tracking box shows the length of the line and the angle from North based on where my cursor is. So I might see Polar: 4.5 < 30(degree symbol) when I have a line is 30 degrees off of north. The box that would allow me to enter a distance (or line length) also displays 4.5, but the box that would allow me to enter an angle displays 60(degree symbol).
My first question is can I get that box that contains the angle to display the azimuth instead and allow me to enter the azimuth, not the angle (which appears to be from the east line!).
When I use the mapcogo dialog box, to create a point based on Azimuth and Distance, after selecting a point, when I enter an Azimuth, say 35,(an angle off of North), and hit tab, the dialog box changes it to 145, then if I enter a distance and hit calculate, the resulting point is northwest of my starting point at an azimuth of 360 - 35 or 325. At least I think that's the result, I never actually see a point to determine what the actual Angle is.
What's going on? I'd like to be able to represent all angles as azimuths from North. Is that possible? Why does the entry in the mapcogo dialog box change?
I'd send screenshots, but the boxes don't get captured when I try to do that.
Can someone explain to me what's happening?