Ordinate Dimensions

[Anonymous]

I am stuck. DOes anyone out there know of an easy way to automatically create the equivalent of AutoCAD's ordinate dimensions?

I want to place Easting and Northing dimensions for setting-out of a road and car parkings over a large area. The contractor wants eastings and northings from a reference point. This is easy in AutoCAD, one just click as I recall, but seems to be v. difficult in ArchiCAD.

I have tried the 'Locator' object, but this seems to give spurious readings!!

Mike

[Anonymous]

Have you played with changing your "angle unit" preferences to surveyor units? This is what I use to lay out sites from a legal description. I will certainly give you the information your looking for, but you might have transfer it to the plans manually, but I am not sure on this.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately, surveyor's angular measurements don't do what I need.

I need a means of defining ordinate dimensions referenced from a single point with East and North vectors coupled with dimensions from the surveyors grid origin defining the location of the setting-out points.

The ArchiRadar Locator tool does work, but the surveyor's grid (and therefore the model) need to be positioned in the model such that the surveyors grid base point (0,0) is sited at the project (ArchiCAD) origin, and that the model and surveyor's grid are correctly orientated.

This is nowhere near as good as AutoCAD's ordinate dimension tool which relates all ordinate dimensions to the current UCS - still you can't have everything I suppose.

I might add this to the wish-list if somebody hasn't already done so. Of course, if there is already an answer in ArchiCAD's tools, I would be delighted to be enlightened!

Mike

[Djordje]

MikeS wrote:
I am stuck. DOes anyone out there know of an easy way to automatically create the equivalent of AutoCAD's ordinate dimensions?

Yes.

Use the Ordinate dimension library part provided in ArchiCAD 9.