Help with Coordinate entry.

[staciejonesy]

Hello! I have been trying to enter survey information for a school project and I need help! The course I am in is not specific to Mac so Im hoping that is part of my issue.

I was told to set units to Decimal. Then Surveyor's Units. The coordinate entry(s) I am struggling with is

542.16' < N39D16'46''E

This is just an example of the many many coordinates that are not working....Please help!

Thank you! 

[paullimapa]

This links to instructions on setting up to enter Surveyor units on AutoCAD windows version but may help with Mac version as well 

[maxim_k]

Hi @staciejonesy ,

>>>>I was told to set units to Decimal. Then Surveyor's Units. The coordinate entry(s) I am struggling with is  542.16' < N39D16'46''E

If you set units to Decimal, then you you should not enter an apostrophe after a decimal value 542.16 and your input should look like:

542.16<N39D16'46"E

[staciejonesy]

Thanks for that information! I tried it again this morning and made sure my units are set. If you notice the screenshots this is what keeps happening when I enter the information.

[paullimapa]

What happens if you set dynmode to 0 and then try entering the same at the command line?

[staciejonesy]

Just tried that now and when I press enter after typing it into the command line it does nothing. Darn I was hoping that was it!

[paullimapa]

so after you enter the LINE command and you selected a location on the drawing area, for your 2nd point did you remember to precede the coordinate entry with an "@" symbol like this:

@542.16<N39D16'46"E

[staciejonesy]

Yes, I just retried it to make sure I didn't miss that step! Still not taking it unfortunately. 

[paullimapa]

try one more thing...start a new drawing and repeat the UNITS settings and draw with first point at 0,0

then enter 

542.16<N39D16'46"E

[maxim_k]

Hi @staciejonesy ,

What AutoCAD for Mac version do you use and what macOS installed on your Mac?

[staciejonesy]

I have Autocad for Mac 2024 and IOS 12.2.1. Do you think I need to update my iOS to help with this issue?

[maxim_k]

@staciejonesy ,

Not sure if macOS Update will help, but you need to verify that you have the latest Update for AutoCAD 2024 for Mac installed.

Can you record screencast of what's happening?

[staciejonesy]

I did try starting a new drawing and I got the same results!

Here is a screen recording of what is happening. 

[paullimapa]

Here are my observations viewing your screen recording:

1. That does not look like a new drawing which should be empty with nothing in it

2. You should turn off running object snaps so the survey units won't get interrupted by entering the following:

OSMODE

0

3. Also I see that you're not preceding the coordinate entry with the @ symbol which is required so that the surveyor units entered for the 2nd point of the LINE is relative to the first point.

[staciejonesy]

Thank you so much for all your help so far! I tried that and it still didn't work! I am sure I'm just missing a simple step or something. 

[paullimapa]

this looks like the same screen recording as the first.

could you increase the command line window so you can see more lines at the bottom?

right now you really can't tell what the response is after you've finished entering the coordinate entry

[staciejonesy]

Oh sorry about that! 

[paullimapa]

@staciejonesy that screen capture showing more lines is perfect.

and that blank drawing screen is perfect for testing too

now I could see you set the UNITS command in this blank drawing for surveyor

then start your line command pick a point any where on the blank screen

then enter your surveyor units entry

then again show more of the command line

And now I see AutoCAD returning invalid point. This looks like a bug with your AutoCAD Mac version. 

[maxim_k]

Hi @staciejonesy ,

Something wrong with the text input - when you type  

@542.16<N39D16'46"E

at the command prompt and hit Return, AutoCAD respond is

Point or option keyword required.

What keyboard do you use?

Please describe your working place setup.

[paullimapa]

To verify you have the latest AutoCAD 2024 version on the Mac installed enter About command do a screenshot and post that here