Change line direction in Carlson Survey

This is how I do it in 2013 w/ embedded AutoCAD,

Annotate tab,
Flip labels,
Switch bearing/azimuth quadrant.

Hopefully that's how it works in IntelliCad.

Corey

Depends which end of the line you pick when labelled . also their a setting for how your label reacts when you pick a line .look under annotate settings.

> Depends which end of the line you pick when labelled . also their a setting for how your label reacts when you pick a line .look under annotate settings.

Aloha, DJames:
That worked great! I have my pref. set to pick the end of line. Carlson switches the AZ direction just like wrote above. Thanks!

Corey:
I saw that menu earlier...but I was looking for line flipping option of some sort. It didn't occur to me that it is the label that needs to be changed.

This command, however, is doing something funny to my label.

The line I have is with South Az 308º45'00" when direction changed it should read 128º45'00" but I am not getting the correct Az. direction change.

On the first click it changes the Az to 180º45'00"
On the second click with the same command on the same label changes the Az to 0º45'00"

The Az. from this point onward only toggles between the above two. I wonder if this a bug?

Thanks

If you want to change the direction of a polyline then you can use the command revpline.

are you sure the drawing or line didnt get rotated?? list the line properties?

I just tried it for myself and it did the exact same thing you said. I'm glad you checked it and didn't just take my word for it. I'm not sure why it's doing that but someone smarter than me will probably chime in and explain it. It works fine for changing the bearing quadrants though.

Corey

> If you want to change the direction of a polyline then you can use the command revpline.

Aloha, ARC:
revpline command works great for changing direction on the polyline. Thanks

> are you sure the drawing or line didnt get rotated?? list the line properties?

Aloha, Cliff:
I found the solution both the direction of the polyline and label for the Azimuth:good: :good:

However, it could be a bug when the "Switch Bearing/Azimuth Quadrant" command is applied to line labeled with Azimuth. Corey was able to repeat the same issue.

I don't see any more responds I'll send a note to Carlson.

P.S. Uncle Dent I hope you are reading this pose:-)

History

They used to have a script RP for the reverse polyline. That script would refresh (I cannot recall if it was a regen or regenall or what) and it was slow. If you had several in a row, there would be no need to regen after each. I found a freebie script from some eastern European source called REVPLINE and sent it to Carlson to speed up the workflows. I had hoped they would just replace the RP code and keep the same command, so now you have to alias to make it faster.

My credit would be minimal (oh big deal, I found a script on the internet). The true credit goes to Carlson who will make improvements to their software based on the suggestions of their users.

History

regen rings a bell for me. I remember trying to help out after my F2F work and attempt to add more to the drawing as rendered. Having zero experience with any CAD program I usually mucked it up. One drawing I had going pretty good. Should have left it alone and just sent the F2F drawing right to engineering - which I did after that.
I did the "regen" thing once and it took me back to the start. That was a rain-day and they kept me in the office. None the less, my several hours of work turned out to be for naught.
From then on, I just let Carlson's F2F take over. Unless I saw some blaring error in line work I just didn't mess with it and sent it on to engineering. They were using Microstation stuff so it wasn't like we could send files back and forth.

If you change it to a polyline, then do a REVERSE POLYLINE. It works.