modeleste Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 plus automatic generation of a standard line table if segments are too short to display dimentions on the line Quote Link to comment
0 modeleste Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 I thought I'd explaination of why this is important, as programming types rarely get it. First the reason for the format: reversability in the field and when tracing a course in the office. You frequently follow bearings in the opposite direction from that in which they were established. So N 20? 13' 32" E reverses to S 20? 13' 32" W with no funky base 60 math and no chance of error. The same in vectorworks format woud be 90?- 20? 13' 32"= 79? 46' 28' to reverse you must do 180? + 20? 13' 32' = 200? 13' 32" Try doing that all day without making an error. Or try entering a property plat with several hundred segments translating each one into vectorworks format. It will take a day and leave you with a migrain. Then when you want to share the result with a professional, you have to translate everything back into standard format and lable each seqment by hand, because he or she isn't going to waste timne w vectorworks format, they'll just tell you to get professionmal software. It is a rare building project that doesn't involve property boundaries. Quote Link to comment
0 modeleste Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 and I proved my point in an embarrassing manner. The second equation should have been 180? + 20? 13' 32' = Momentarily forgot that Vectorworks sets 0? at East. Thgis sort of deadly boring repetetive stuff is the first stuff computers should be doing foir us Quote Link to comment
0 modeleste Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 not 180, 270 (this time it was just a paste over riding what I typed first, but still.... just too fussy if you are having to do it hundreds or thousands of times in a day Quote Link to comment
0 LaVoie Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Oh! and I thought I was the only one who didn't understand this tool... I get the migrane after the second line input... Bill Quote Link to comment
0 Jonathan Pickup Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 you are talking about using the Property Line tool? if so try out the simple dialog box option you can type in your degrees minutes and seconds as.... 20.13.32 and instead of adding 180? use -lengths. Quote Link to comment
0 modeleste Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 The issue isn;t so much the degree minutes secods format is it is the easting and westing from north and south AS in N 43? 17' 53' W being the fool-proof reversal of the bearing S 43? 17' 53' E and both being in the only format accepted professionally Quote Link to comment
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