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Element Information- Line Bearing

Stress Co_
Advisor
I was hoping to determine a line's bearing (my "Working Unit's" for angles is set at "Surveory's Units") by using the Element Information tool...... but it only lists the lines length.

Is there a way to do this ...short of tracing the line and reading the angle?

Thanks
Marc
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.2.1 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
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David Maudlin
Virtuoso
Stress wrote:
I was hoping to determine a line's bearing (my "Working Unit's" for angles is set at "Surveory's Units") by using the Element Information tool...... but it only lists the lines length.

Is there a way to do this ...short of tracing the line and reading the angle?

Thanks
Marc


Marc:

Move the project origin (option-shift on Mac) to one end of the line, then move the cursor to the other end and read the bearing from the coordinates palette.

HTH

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14
Stress Co_
Advisor
David wrote:


Marc:

Move the project origin (option-shift on Mac) to one end of the line, then move the cursor to the other end and read the bearing from the coordinates palette.

HTH

David


That's excatally how I checked wall lengths before finding the Element Information tool. ...... But it'll work. Thanks for reminding me, David.
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.2.1 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
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