Reverse distances and bearings

[Arty]

Hi,

I'm working with siteplans and have a lot of distances and bearings in my drawing. Sometimes i need to reverse them. Is there a command in AutoCAD 2012 where you can reverse a hole heap of distances and bearings all at once? Mirror make them up side down... I want them to swop sides of the line they refer to.

[BIGAL]

If there two words BRG DIST 100d57'23" 123.457 easy just find space and rewrite as dist brg using a lisp. Lee-Mac has a find character lisp on his web site as a start point. While I think about it sure someone will post soloution. Going home now.

[ReMark]

So all you want to do is change the POSITION of the bearing and distance not actually reverse it (ex. - a NW bearing becomes a SE bearing). Is that right?

[CyberAngel]

So all you want to do is change the POSITION of the bearing and distance not actually reverse it (ex. - a NW bearing becomes a SE bearing). Is that right?

I believe the OP wants to do the second thing. That's what s/he means by swapping the ends. It's fairly common in surveying.

The solution will depend on whether the edges are independent polylines or components of parcel objects.

[ReMark]

Sorry Cyber but I do not get that same impression because the OP goes on to say...

"Mirror make them up side down... I want them to swop (swap) sides of the line..."

[eldon]

Perhaps the OP could post a picture so we can see what is required.

[Arty]

Hey guys and thanks for trying to help. Sorry if I made you confused... Remark is right. I want to change the positions of the bearing and the distance where the bearing will change direction. I have now moved them and changed them one by one, so all is good, but for future reference it would be great to know if there is a command where you can make them change sides of the line and automatically change direction...

What I am doing is: In my project I have a long road through the site plan with smaller lots on eather side. The bearings should be on the road but they are on the lots at the moment. It's many bearings to move out to the road and to have a command switching this for you yould be nice!

In attached jpg there is a picture of the road and all bearings and distances in that section. Hope you get a better idea of what I'm after.

[ReMark]

That's some strange road layout if all you are using is straight line segments to define what should really be a curve.

What you need is Lee Mac's Flip Text lisp routine which can be found in this thread. http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...ts-180-Degrees

[Arty]

Well I don't know what's strange or not, this is how my company do it... I've been there 6 weeks so I don't take any responsibility for how thay have set up their work, but I'd like to make my work smoother and faster so thanks for your help. Not sure what a lisp routine is...?
can you explain so i know what you mean I should be doing? Thanks!

[ReMark]

A lisp routine is a program that is run inside of AutoCAD. You can load the routine via the APPLOAD command. Once loaded you can run the command by typing FlipTxt at the command line. Follow the prompts.