I'm using the Attribute Block setting to label my structures automatically as I create the structures. For some reason each label block is being inserted with a rotation of N84°24'E. No other labels or symbols are having this issue. I can insert the block with the insert command and it comes in correctly. I've checked the UCS and been through all the settings that I know to check.
This drawing was created with Carlson 2013 on AutoCAD 2013 and did not have this issue. I'm now running Carlson 2015 on AutoCAD 2015 and I don't know if this is a glitch or a setting that I just can't find.
Any ideas appreciated.
Is your line (pipe) direction the bearing you relayed in the post?
Maybe your label settings is set to align to the pipe run instead of plan view type rotation?
I bet it's a setting in the Carlson Settings Explorer.
That's where your automated settings are.
Poke around there. I wonder if the plan view settings are set to align to the centerline?
It turned out to be a weird quirk in the block I was using.
The block started out as a simple circle with a text attribute inside. I needed to show part of my drawing at a different scale so I made the block annotative so I could easily show it at different scales. The block worked great, but Carlson's Hydrology module hasn't been updated to handle annotative blocks. I ended up with huge circles with tiny text located hundreds of feet from the structures. I edited the block and made everything non-annotative and that's when the rotation showed up. There are 90+ structures in the drawing and it was updating the labels for all of them. All had the same N84°24'E rotation.
I finally fixed it by recreating the block from scratch. Apparently that got rid of the gremlin that was hiding in the block.