I would like to switch back and forth between plat north and gps north, to annotate and compute line on plat north, but leave the control drawing on gps state plane coordinates. I tried using UCS command, can rotate the drawing view to plat north, but the bearing line labels are still at the gps north.
Did you annotate the lines before or after rotating the UCS?
After the UCS rotate.
Trying to leave the survey control on state plane grid north, but create a survey drawing showing previous surveyed property's description assumed north, without creating a separate drawing on that rotation.
> I would like to switch back and forth between plat north and gps north, to annotate and compute line on plat north, but leave the control drawing on gps state plane coordinates. I tried using UCS command, can rotate the drawing view to plat north, but the bearing line labels are still at the gps north.
Carlson doesn't honor UCS's. If your drawing is in local coords, you can define a localization in drawing setup. Then you can annotate in local, state plane or both. But if you're drawing is in state plane, Carlson won't let you define a localization to the local system. It would be nice if it would. Maybe you can use 2 different paper space viewports......
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You need 2 drawings, one in SPC and one in Plat North, which means 2 coordinate files.
You just switch from dwg to dwg. I cannot see you doing a lot of back and forth, you need to first resolve your survey in one or the other.
It would probably be safest to use three drawings, x-reffing the SPC and Plat North dwgs into a third drawing.
I hope it is not too large a project because scale factors will kill one or the other's accuracy.
Paul in PA
