cimstin Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 feeling like a dumby, drawing a right of way sample for class, and i cant dimension my lines with a distance and an azimuth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/autocad/survey-data.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 That's good for the drawing, but the OP did ask for help with the dimensioning. Perhaps this post #5 will help you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimstin Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 i saw this post but i couldnt open or download the file , also it says for bearings?... and i need azimuths, any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organic Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 i saw this post but i couldnt open or download the file , also it says for bearings?... and i need azimuths, any thoughts? I just tried it and it worked fine for me Edit: Try http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?17201-Labeling-line-bearings&p=368406&viewfull=1#post368406. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 .... also it says for bearings?... and i need azimuths, any thoughts? The two words are synonymous. It depends where in the world you are. In the UK, the geographic direction of a line is said to be a bearing (more correctly a Whole Circle Bearing) and it is the angle from North measured clockwise. Other places in the world call the same thing an azimuth, but in AutoCAD it is known as Surveyor's Units, and is further complicated by being divided into four quadrants which have to have extra letter descriptions to ensure you are in the correct quadrant. But as you are using Civil3D, I am surprised that you don't have an inbuilt labelling routine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimstin Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 haha well im still a baby at this autocad stuff, but I found a solution within Civil 3D that is a little easier for anyone else who is having trouble, by going into toolspace, settings, General, label styles, line, and creating a copy of the "Azimuth and arrow over distance" label style. I then played around by edited the settings to hide the direction arrow and be on the layer i wanted but i fiund that you HAVE to click apply first then ok haha. Then i went into lines/curves on the top menu bar, add lines/curve labels, and then add lines and curve labels... and selected the new label style I created from the drop down arrow. and clicked add!I did that for both single and multiple segments. then when i wanted to dimension the line i went to Lines/curves on the top menu, add lines/curves labels, single segment and clicked on the line!!! WA LA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I have moved this thread to the Civil3D & LDD forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapureef Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Go into drawing setup and change your units from bearing to azimuth (either north or south) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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