I have a newly-purchased Carlson 2014 (build 131220) running inside my Autocad 2014.
When using the "Traverse" command to enter a bearing and distance, and I cancel the command anytime after entering the "Angle-Bearing Code", I find that the Autocad angle units are set to "radians" instead of "Surveyor's Units".
Does anyone have any fixes for this? Besides "Don't cancel that command!" 🙂
Thanks,
Jeff
You may want to look at setting and preferences in a blank drawing and fix it there. It SHOULD hold from there. However, it should also be noted that my units change for no reason every now and then and I'll annotate a drawing to the nearest hundreth of a second and ten-thousandth of a foot and have to redo it. It's always one with several calls also.
I checked my template drawing and it's set to surveyor's units there. I also checked it in a blank dwg: the units stay as surveyor's units if you let the command complete and a point is generated, but are left as radians if the command is cancelled before that.
It looks like the error handler is not resetting the units properly. This is annoying since I cancel commands frequently!
Maybe I should learn to be less indecisive...or maybe not...
I have had this problem with the 2008 stand alone version.
it is random as to when it decides to change to radians, or I haven't found a common cause. Just happened this morning in a new drawing.
Dtp
I tried test test this last night but couldn't get the Radians result. Can you send me the exact sequence of steps of example input and where/how you cancel the command so I can attempt to replicate it and get it turned into programming?
Hi Ladd-
I just tried this again using the original carlson14.dwt template:
- Start Carlson/Autocad from the Carlson shortcut icon.
- Exit the startup wizard.
- Type "UNITS" and check that angle type is surveyor's units (they are). Cancel units dialog.
- Type "TRAVERSE", pick a point for the occupied point, enter "1" for angle-bearing code,enter key,then escape key to cancel.
- Type "UNITS", angle type is now radians.
This happens every time on my system. on new and old dwgs.
Thanks!
Jeff
Oops...
Ladd-
Sorry, it looks like this is my fault. I have an acaddoc.lsp file (largely written at least 15 years ago!) that contains:
defun S::STARTUP ()
(setq *ERROR* newerr))
where newerr is MY error handler for dozens of my own lsp files.
When I comment this out and follow the sequence in my previous post, I now get:
"*Cancel* Function cancelled :error#83"
and the units do NOT get left as radians, they go back to surveyor's units as they should.
So it looks like I have to fix my own customizations, if I can remember how - these were all originally written for Acad 10 and 12...
Thank you all for the replies,
Jeff