Lines

[Anonymous]

How do I create lines using degrees, minutes and seconds rather than grids?

[vinodkl]

Hi,

Are you talking about drawing lines with angle in degree/min/sec. Then check "UNTIS" command

[imadHabash]

i suggest to follow this video that may help . >> Click <<

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous - you don't have to change your units.

Suppose you want to draw a line that is at the bearing N 13° 48' 51"E and the length is 200.16 units long.

Start the LINE command, pick a point, then at the command prompt enter:

@200.16<n13d48'51"E

If you want to LIST this line (or select it and view the properties in the properties palette) and see the resulting angle listed in the same format, then yes, you will need to set AUNITS to a value of 4 (Surveyor's units).

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

How do I create lines using degrees, minutes and seconds rather than grids?

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You don't say anything about Surveyor's units as some are assuming, so if you really mean simply degrees/minutes/seconds, you can use the Relative-displacement-at-angle format, for example for the second point of a Line or a Move or Copy displacement:

@31.25<54d23'14.5"

Note the use of d for degrees [angular Dimensions will show a degrees symbol, but the d is how you designate degrees in typing in angles, as with Surveyor's units].

By the way, you should probably set your angular UNITS for degrees/minutes/seconds format, but you don't actually need to -- even if they're set for decimal degrees, you can still enter angles in DMS format and it will understand.

[Anonymous]

That process didn't work. I just received the message shown in the red box as shown on the attached.

[pendean]

nothing attached: you have to come to the website to post files and images.

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous  this is what we see.

No images are shown.

When you are editing the message, click the camera icon to attach an image inline (don't use the "attachments" below the edit box)

[Anonymous]

I have no camera icon.

[pendean]

It is there if you come to the website, and use the REPLY (not quickreply) button for all of us. Try it.

But first you actually have to have an image captured and saved as a PNG or JPG beforehand.

HTH

[rkmcswain]

@pendean wrote:
But first you actually have to have an image captured and saved as a PNG or JPG beforehand.

@Anonymous 

The exceptions to that rule are 

1. You can repost images you've uploaded here in the past.

2. You can post an image that is already on the public Internet somewhere by entering the url. (For example, if your image is on imgur.com)