Scale in Bricscad
Does Bricscad support Bearing and distance (decimal feet) in units and scale?
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Hi Steve,
not quite sure what you mean. You can change your default units for distance and angles from the Settings dialogue. Goto Setting|Settings on the pulldown menu. Once open look for Linear Units & Angular units under Drawing>Drafting>Drawing Units. A description of each unit option is give at the bottom of the Settings dialogue.
I do have a lisp routine called Bearing Distance (BD) on the resources page of my website. This is will place Bearing and Distance text above and below selected lines and polylines using the current dimension style for text height.You should be able to modify it to meet your needs.
Regards,
Jason Bourhill
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I have that capability in Carlson Survey now (Bearing and distance) But what I would really like to see is the ability to set up different scales AND different Units in different viewports Especially in Paper Space. Because we Survey in Decimal Feet and then do Landscape designs (in decimal Feet) This allows us to return to the site and stake out our design (In decimal Feet) However, Every Design has a customer and when presenting a drawing to that customer most novice customers do not understand decimal feet. They do however understand Feet and Inches. Also by setting up mulitple viewports in paper space with the capability to define both a seperate scale and a seperate Units You could print out drawings for different audiances. Without affecting the Units in Model space.
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Hi Steve,
Know what you mean now. Dimensions allow you to show alternate units along side your base unit. You should be able to use this to go some way to acheiving what you want. For example my standard dimstyle is set up to use mm, but I can turn on alternate units to also display the measurement in inches alongside the mm.
To try it out, simply select an existing dimension on one of your drawings, then in the property bar (Ctrl +1) scroll down till you see Alternate Units. You need to first enable alternate units, then select your units (sounds like you want architectural), select precision etc. Your scale factor will be need to be 1, as you're really just changing the notation.
If this is what you want, then you need to customise your dimension style _DIMSTYLE to make this setting part of your standard dimension style, then save this as a template, so you can re-use in new drawings.
If you don't like the way this looks you could create a script/lisp that swaps all dimensions between the two settings. I have sample CAD Library for Bricscad under the resources section of my website http://www.cadconcepts.co.nz/resources/, which contains some sample scripts for defining dimstyles.
Regards,
Jason Bourhill
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