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I have a situation that i usually dont have in the electrical world. I have been given coordinates N: 5856.000 and E: 3797.000. I am to make these numbers the center of my building and label placement of devices accordingly using the same numbering. I am at a loss. I have played with units and some lisps but is there a way to set that point and convert my x and y values to show N and E? BTW I am using plain ol' autocad 2012.
Thanks in advance.
You could simply set your units to feet. E is the +x value and N is the +y value of your coordinates, drawing in the first quadrant. You could create a ucs with that as 0,0 to make it easier to draw your building as you are used to. If you need to label lines, I have a couple of lisps that do that.
For device coordinates, you might be able to use field attributes that extract the x, y coords. If you don't have blocks for all your devices, you could make a point block with atts and place it at the device origin.
Thanks. I wasnt sure if that was feet or some other unit. That helps alot. Thank you for the quick response.
No problem.
Those units aren't in feet. They're meters.
They're giving you the geolocation in UTM format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...rdinate_system
Those units are in meters, not feet. It's a geolocation, using the UTM grid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...rdinate_system