Penn Foster Civil Project, check

[Hondatek]

i'm Not too sure on these instructions.

 

• Before you can draw the contours of the land, you’ll need

to locate all the surveyed spot elevations on your drawing.

The surveyors gathered 216 spot elevations. The spot

elevations, taken at equal distances apart, run across the

length of the surveyed area in 12 evenly spaced rows.

1. Create Layer Spot (color yellow, linetype continuous)

on which to draw the elevation values.

2. Create an X using two intersecting lines, each 10

feet long, on Layer Spot. The lines should intersect

at their midpoints.

3. MOVE the lines from the intersection of the lines

(using the Osnap) to the center of the benchmark

(again using the Osnap).

4. Now, use the ARRAY command. When the command

prompt asks you to select objects, enter P for

previous. (AutoCAD will automatically select the

two lines you had just moved.) Use a rectangular

array with 12 rows and 18 columns. When

AutoCAD prompts you for the unit distance

between rows, enter –50. (You enter a negative

number since you’re arraying the rows from the

northwest corner to the lower portion of the screen,

which is a negative direction in AutoCAD.) When

AutoCAD prompts you for the unit distance

between rows, enter 50. (This time, you’ll enter a

positive number since you’re arraying columns

from the northwest corner to the right, which in

AutoCAD is a positive direction.) Finally, ERASE the

spot elevation mark that you had positioned with

the benchmark.

5. Create a text style named SPOT-TEXT. Select

ROMANS as the font, and use a height of 6″ and a

width factor of 0.8. While still in Layer Spot, use

the DTEXT command and type XXX alongside the

spot elevation mark in the lower-left corner of the

screen. Now, use the ARRAY command again to copy

the XXX to alongside all the rest of the spot

elevations.

Civil

 

see #4 it says rows twice not rows then columns.

 

this is the screen shot.

 

and AutoCad propts are different then what PF are saying in this project.

[ReMark]

You are right. It is rows and columns.

 

What AutoCAD prompts (different) are you talking about?

[Hondatek]

this is how i did it Remark.

 

Command: _arrayrect

Select objects: 1 found

Select objects: 1 found, 2 total

Select objects:

Type = Rectangular Associative = Yes

Select grip to edit array or [ASsociative/Base point/COUnt/Spacing/COLumns/Rows/Levels/eXit]: R

Enter the number of rows or [Expression] : 12

Specify the distance between rows or [Total/Expression] : -50

Specify the incrementing elevation between rows or [Expresson] :

Select grip to edit array or [ASsociative/Base point/COUnt/Spacing/COLumns/Rows/Levels/eXit]: COL

Enter the number of columns or [Expression] : 18

Specify the distance between columns or [Total/Expression] : 50

Select grip to edit array or [ASsociative/Base point/COUnt/Spacing/COLumns/Rows/Levels/eXit]:

 

you can pick what to do next.

[ReMark]

The different prompts you are seeing as compared to what Penn-Foster says is probably due to the fact that the instructions have not been updated to reflect changes in the ARRAY command. P-F is using the old command which is still available if one knows how to access it via the command line.

[Hondatek]

This has taken me ALL weekend to all the marks at 10's. crazy. Next I have a question in the nest post.