ENTERING SURVEYOR COORDINATES TO INPUT PROPERTY BOUNDARIES

HELLO,
IN EITHER ACAD 2002 OR ADT 3.3 (OR 2004) IS THERE A WAY TO ENTER SURVEYOR
COORDINATE INFO TO DRAW LINES OF A PROPERTY: SUCH AS 'NORTHING COORDINATES'
LIKE...(479.30' @ N 80° 10'09"E) ETC...??

THANKS FOR ANY HELP,
-J

 

Note: The units DO NOT have to be set any certain way to enter polar coordinates.

 

You mean that if the units are set to architectural that you will still get
a 439.30 foot line with the example below?

Allen

 

You will get a 439.30 "unit" long line. AutoCAD doesn't know or care about what that "unit" is. True, if you are in Arch units and then turn around and list this line, it will report 36'-7", but that's just AutoCAD *reporting* the line in Feet/Inches because you set the units to Arch. The line is still 439 "units" long, those units just happen to be inches.

My main point was that you do not have to set your angle type to "surveyor's units" in order to enter polar coordinates.

 

.... or just 439.9' -- the foot symbol automatically does the *12 if you're
using architectural (inch) units.
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I wanted a 439.9 foot line,

 

True.

 

Trivia ... the reason surveyors assume their "units" are feet, whereas
architects assume they're inches, goes way back to when AutoCAD didn't allow
input of decimal feet, when using "architectural" units. If you wanted to
enter a number like 439.9, you had to be in "decimal" units. So
civil/surveying types assumed feet to be their units, in order to work with
decimals. It was just a workaround to a shortcoming of the program. Hasn't
really been necessary to work that way for several versions, but people
still do what they're used to, and architect's drawings are always 12 times
as large as civil drawings

It's still one keystroke faster per bearing to leave off the "foot"
apostrophe, and scale the whole thing up by 12 if you want it architectural
size.

 

>It would have worked out much better to have all the unit settings default to feet and just do the conversion of the decimal portion of the foot to inches for architectural and decimal inches for engineering. <<

Machinists would have loved that.

 

We still use inches on surveys down here in Nawlins(drafting only, not
field). Old french deeds are in feet.inches.lines, 8 lines equals 1 inch.
10.75 feet eqauls on survey>> 10.9.0 Kinda strange but this is still
being used in most of New Orleans

Sbaumer