Roof - change to draw degrees, minutes and second

[Anonymous]

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

[Richard Morrison]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Barry Kelly]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Barry Kelly]

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.

[Erika Epstein]

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?

[Anonymous]

It's our standard for roof over here.

[Erika Epstein]

Thanks!
Do you know how it came about?

[Anonymous]

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