MAREBER Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 Good afternoon, I am trying to relearn how to create my PL by using the provided bearings only. I use to be able to do this, but that was a long time ago, and my old notes aren't getting me anywhere now. If there is a tutorial, please be so kind as to direct me there. If not, would someone please give me a step by step on doing this? Thanks, in advance! M Quote
CmdrDuh Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 well, first set your units and angle direction to North=0 degrees and survey units, then I believe you can type in your distances and bearings as you expect to. If you could post something of what your trying to do, I might be able to help more. Quote
CmdrDuh Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 that seems pretty straight forward, and what I would have said, minus the part about the units. I think you have to set the angle unit to surveyer units to use Northing/Easting method Quote
MAREBER Posted September 12, 2008 Author Posted September 12, 2008 Yes...I did manage to remember that the units needed to be set to survey and the precision to N0d00'00"E. That tutorial is really helpful...BUT...I DO NOT ever remember having to do SO much for radial curves in the past. Is this the only way, or is there an easier way to do curved bearings when the radius, length and direction is given? In other words, can't that info be typed into the command line so as NOT to have to do the tangent and rotate it, etc? Quote
MAREBER Posted September 15, 2008 Author Posted September 15, 2008 LDD? I don't think so, because I don't know what that is? Sorry. Quote
ReMark Posted September 15, 2008 Posted September 15, 2008 I don't believe there is such a thing as a "curved bearing". The bearing would be along the tangent. Using the info provided the horizontal curve is laid out from the PC (point of curvature) to PT (point of tangency. The point at which both tangents meet is referred to at the PI (point of intersection). If you're lucky, the surveyor provided the curve's radius, tangent distance, curve length, chord length and angle of curve which would make reconstructing the curve quite simple. Once you've completed the curve and you're back on the first straight line then a bearing and distance would be given. Quote
Martini Posted September 15, 2008 Posted September 15, 2008 Well if there is a menu tab up top that says lines/curves you can draw a line by bearing using by direction, and if you know the curve info you can turn your delta angle and through your arc in there Quote
ReMark Posted September 16, 2008 Posted September 16, 2008 LDD refers to AutoDesk Land Desktop - for civil engineering and surveyors. Quote
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