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how can i find a point using northing/easting?

cadman33619 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:03:00 GMT

hi,

i have the fillowing norting/easting:

257,414.80

232,947.60

how can i enter that into autocad (2010) and find its location?

thanks

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:21:25 GMT

You could probably just draw a line to it or a circle at the coordinate values by typing in EEEEE.EE, NNNNN.NN

There may be a more eloquent solution, however.

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:37:01 GMT

You could also insert a block there...

for example make a circle, block it with insertion at the center, then use the INSERT command to insert the block. In the dialouge box type in your coords.

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:12:12 GMT

your northing and easting is "Y" and "X". autoCAD entry is X,Y (notice no spaces between coordinates and commas. if you hit the space bar, it's like 'enter' in CAD)

use the LINE command to draw a line from point 0,0 to 232947.60,257414.80 (YOUR POINT)

use the zoom extents command

assuming your drawing is not rotated and North is the top of the screen, YOUR POINT should be the upper right end of the line you just drew.

see data entry below...

Command: LINE
Specify first point: 0,0

Specify next point or [Undo]: 232947.60,257414.80

Specify next point or [Undo]:

Command: '_.zoom _e
Command: '_id Specify point: X = 232947.60 Y = 257414.80 Z = 0.00

good luck~!

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

sboon — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:13:25 GMT

The Zoom command also has an option to enter coordinates for the location to zoom to.

From the command line:

Command: z ZOOM
Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor (nX or nXP), or
[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window/Object] <real time>: c
Specify center point: 442300,6273000
Enter magnification or height <123.166>: Enter or Space to accept current value

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

cadman33619 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:40:13 GMT

that did the trick...

wasn't aware that it needed to be reversed.

thanks

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:36:00 GMT

hw cn i find easting northing ccordinates

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

wfberry — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:39:20 GMT

Follow your cross-hair coordinates at the bottom of the screen.

Bill

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

AllenJessup — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:40:50 GMT

In what way other than the methods outlined above?

Allen

Re: how can i find a point using northing/easting?

doni49 — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:33:57 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

hw cn i find easting northing ccordinates

If you want to know the exact cooridinates of a particular location (such as end point of a line), use an osnap along with the ID command.

Type in ID. Acad will prompt you to select the location. Select your location (using the appropriate OSNAP) and it'll show you something like this: