I am placing northing and easting callouts in a site layout plan. While most of the dimension on the plan I want to show in architectural units (i.e. 25'-6"
I want northings and eastings to display in decimal units (i.e 145003.25). How is this accomplished?
I want northings and eastings to display in decimal units (i.e 145003.25). How is this accomplished? 
Daniel,
The control of the numeric display of Northing/Eastings is done via the AutoCAD Units dialog, so you can set that to Decimal. Meanwhile you could have your Dimstyle to be Architectural display, but that would require setting the Scale Factor of 12 to turn the feet measurements into Inches. If, however, your plan is in Architectural inches, and you want the Northing/Eastings to be in Decimal Feet, that is not something that is currently possible.
--J
The control of the numeric display of Northing/Eastings is done via the AutoCAD Units dialog, so you can set that to Decimal. Meanwhile you could have your Dimstyle to be Architectural display, but that would require setting the Scale Factor of 12 to turn the feet measurements into Inches. If, however, your plan is in Architectural inches, and you want the Northing/Eastings to be in Decimal Feet, that is not something that is currently possible.
--J
Jeremiah,
We are working on incorporating LandFX coordinate points into our standards. In the response, you say that "If, however, your plan is in Architectural inches, and you want the Northing/Eastings to be in Decimal Feet, that is not something that is currently possible". Is this still the case? Is there a workaround to get the results we want?
Thanks, Amanda
We are working on incorporating LandFX coordinate points into our standards. In the response, you say that "If, however, your plan is in Architectural inches, and you want the Northing/Eastings to be in Decimal Feet, that is not something that is currently possible". Is this still the case? Is there a workaround to get the results we want?
Thanks, Amanda
Amanda,
As you are working on your standards, now is a perfect time to make Decimal Feet your standard, if not even US Survey Feet. The N/E point issue is just barely scratching the surface of the myriad reasons that decimal feet is a far better standard.
—J
As you are working on your standards, now is a perfect time to make Decimal Feet your standard, if not even US Survey Feet. The N/E point issue is just barely scratching the surface of the myriad reasons that decimal feet is a far better standard.
—J
Jeremiah,
Is there a way, (on our end), to adjust the northing and easting callout and northing and easting schedule attributes in the blocks to incorporate the 1/12x factor we would need account for the inches to feet conversion? While the use of LandFX's N/E tools is appealing, we're not looking to make global changes to our dimstyles to make them work.
Is there a way, (on our end), to adjust the northing and easting callout and northing and easting schedule attributes in the blocks to incorporate the 1/12x factor we would need account for the inches to feet conversion? While the use of LandFX's N/E tools is appealing, we're not looking to make global changes to our dimstyles to make them work.
Daniel,
We are also not looking at making the numerous changes across the Northing/Easting system, and related Slope and Z-Align tools to support this. It does seem like there is enough of an interest to do so, so this is something we could look into next year.
In the meantime, setting a Scale factor of 12 to a dimstyle is clearly the least effort of the three possible courses of action here.
--J
We are also not looking at making the numerous changes across the Northing/Easting system, and related Slope and Z-Align tools to support this. It does seem like there is enough of an interest to do so, so this is something we could look into next year.
In the meantime, setting a Scale factor of 12 to a dimstyle is clearly the least effort of the three possible courses of action here.
--J
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