Site Plan- Meets and Bounds

[Anonymous]

How do you enter meets and bounds for site plan? I have a hand drawn survey and want to enter it into AC9.

[Scott Bulmer]

In Project Preferences>Working Units & Levels select 'Surveyor's Unit' under Angle Unit. When drawing your boundary lines start the line from know endpoint, enter 'R' distance & 'A' angle in Surveyor's Units.
That should work.
Scott

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[Anonymous]

Do you guys know if there is a way to set Project North?

Or is there such a thing?

I want my building to sit a certain way on my screen and my site lines to lay the way they should in relation to the house.

I can just draw up the property lines and then raotate it to sit correctly with my house. I was just wondering if there was a "correct" way to do this.

~~Thanks~~

[Scott Bulmer]

View > 3D View Mode > Project Settings > More Sun ...Project North
I think. Let me know if there is another way.

[Anonymous]

Also, when I use surveyors units it doesn't seem to send my lines at the angle I type in, it just goes to where ever my mouse is.

Before I read this and I was using the degrees minutes seconds for units and it was giving me angles, still not correctly really though, but I might just be putting them in wrong.

also- what s the format I should be inputting?

I have been doing DEGREE space X'X"

Right?

[Scott Bulmer]

I think you need to turn on your tracker for the angle entry to work properly, not sure.

I haven't done this in a while, but think either a space or minus sign as separators should be fine when entering surveyors units.

[Anonymous]

My tracker was on to enter anlges,

But ALL OF A SUDDEN! i am getting an option for the NSEW directions in the angle input options in the tracker now.
Weird.
Still dont think it is working right though.

[Anonymous]

Jess

For boundary angles, guide your cursor parallel to north, hit A (for angle) enter the value, hit - (minus) then ENTER. You can enter angles with spaces between degrees, minutes and seconds. eg. 120 16 55 = 120deg 16' 55"

You can do this before or after D or R for length of boundary.

[Anonymous]

s2art wrote:
Jess

For boundary angles, guide your cursor parallel to north, hit A (for angle) enter the value, hit - (minus) then ENTER. You can enter angles with spaces between degrees, minutes and seconds. eg. 120 16 55 = 120deg 16' 55"

You can do this before or after D or R for length of boundary.

Running my cursor parallell to North ..... is that going to set my North?
Or what is that for?

And then when I enter the coordinates like you said- should I have my units set at "Surveyor's" or "Degrees Minutes Seconds"?
And do you knwo how I got the Angle to say " S10 30' 57"E "
?? And to let me type it in that way- and is that teh way I want to do it?