topic Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second in Installation & update

Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:16:09 GMT

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I'm having with the roof tool. I'm trying to change the roof tool so it draws in degrees, minutes and second. It's drawing in decimal degrees at the moment, it was originally set up to draw in degrees, minutes and second but for some reason it has changed, but I haven't changed any of the setting. I've check my units in Options/Project Preference and it set up correctly. Has anyone ever come across this problem. I need help to fix this as this is our template. Thanks

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Richard Morrison — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:44:08 GMT

You should change this in the "Working Units" section rather than the "Dimensions" section. It would be helpful to include your version of AC, etc. in your signature.

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:53:12 GMT

I'm using AC 12. I've already set all these setting to degrees, minutes and seconds, but the roof tool doesnt change with these setting. Thanks

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Barry Kelly — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:16:56 GMT

Mel wrote:
I'm using AC 12. I've already set all these setting to degrees, minutes and seconds, but the roof tool doesnt change with these setting. Thanks

The roof has always been in decimal degrees.
I have never found an option to change it to D_M_S.

In the roof tool settings you can choose between degrees, percentage pitch, 1:12" or 1"12' rise/run.
But none of these help with what you want.
Barry.

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:48:15 GMT

I know it can be done, because I've got an older file which i was working from which is set up like this. I attached an image. The one that changed is a copy of this file, but for some reason it has changed the setting. This has happen to me before. I reckon it might be bug in the program which is doing this, because I've never change the setting in the last couple of day while working on this file. It very strange. I wouldn't care if it was just a standard job but this file is to be our company template and i need to have the setting in degrees, minutes and second. I don't want to have to go back to original file and lost weeks worth of work.

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Barry Kelly — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:09:05 GMT

Mel wrote:
I know it can be done, because I've got an older file which i was working from which is set up like this. I attached an image. The one that changed is a copy of this file, but for some reason it has changed the setting. This has happen to me before. I reckon it might be bug in the program which is doing this, because I've never change the setting in the last couple of day while working on this file. It very strange. I wouldn't care if it was just a standard job but this file is to be our company template and i need to have the setting in degrees, minutes and second. I don't want to have to go back to original file and lost weeks worth of work.

I'd love to know how you got this.
Can anyone enlighten us?
I have been looking for years - not that it really bothers me otherwise I would have looked harder at it.
But now I am intrigued.

Can anyone offer a solution?
Do others see degrees, minutes and seconds?

I'll kick myself if it is a simple solution.
It definitely is not the working units.

Barry.

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Erika Epstein — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:53:47 GMT

I've not seen surveyors' units applied to the roof tool, nor could I get it to work.

I'm curious, is this for something you are doing with the roof tool other than for use as a roof? Or this a local Australian standard?

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:04:17 GMT

It's our standard for roof over here.

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Erika Epstein — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:26:07 GMT

Thanks!
Do you know how it came about?

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:30:05 GMT

It definitely has something to do with Working Units & Levels.
I just managed to jump mine from deg, min, sec to decimal degrees by changing the working units BUT now it won't change back! Very odd

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:47:57 GMT

I had the same problem. Where I can change it to decimal degrees but not back to degrees, minutes and second

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:55:17 GMT

Ahhh it can be fixed though! Open a project that has the roof set to d,m,s, then copy any roof plane from that into your project with the dec. degrees (make sure you turn the working units back to d,m,s, first) and it will turn all the original planes back to d,m,s!

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:58:14 GMT

Or not! Hmmm it works on one project I have open but not the other!
Both based on the same base template!

Also if I open the decimal degree project from the Archicad that has the d,m,s, project open, it switches the dec project back to d,m,s!!!

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:10:17 GMT

I've tried opening it the way you told me. It was working last night at home on AC11, but just to my luck it not work here at work in AC12.

Re: Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:26:49 GMT

Yeah it looks like it isn't a sure fire solution mate! It's definitely pulling some ran-doom behaviour!