I sent a drawing to a designer, this was drawn at 1"=20' and using decimal and "untitless" insertion scale. Also, in surveyors units for angle.
He scales everything up by 12 to get it to inches and changes the drawing from decimal to architects untits and leaves it in surveyors in units.
Now when he draws a 20' line and dimensions it it the dim line is at an angle to the line and the dimension is a little smaller.
He says it because my drawing was twisted to get north up on the sheet. I told him that would not cause this.
My drawing was not drawn in 3D.
I have Carlson Survey 2007, he has full AutoCADD.
I know someone out there can answer why this is happening.
Thanks,
Forrest
Probaly the architects "untits" caused this! 🙂
I agree... The "untits" sound disturbing. 🙂
But it also sounds like the Archy is using "DIMLINEAR" instead of "DIMALIGNED".
>He scales everything up by 12
I may be backward and a dinosaur in surveying, but back in the olden days, we would have scaled it down by a factor of 1/12..but like I said, im a dinosaur and way behind the times.
> He scales everything up by 12 to get it to inches and changes the drawing from decimal to architects untits and leaves it in surveyors in units.
Pretty much SOP for most architects I've worked with.
My way:
in your original drawing, draw grid lines, label it, rotate to his desired "up" and ship it to him.
he can then take another stab at screwing it up all on his own.
or... "run Forrest, run" 😉
Surveyors are normally the real experts at unit conversions, translations, and rotations... dazzle him with your skills!
I second that guess. He's labeling the latitude or departure rather than the line in question (in archy speak, the sides rather than hypotenuse of a triangle). Tell them to use aligned dimensions.