setting N,E locations in autocad question

[jeff.194708]

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.

[Ed Jobe]

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.

[jeff.194708]

Thanks. I wasnt sure if that was feet or some other unit. That helps alot. Thank you for the quick response.

[Ed Jobe]

No problem.

[BlueVue]

Those units aren't in feet. They're meters.
They're giving you the geolocation in UTM format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system

[svajk394200]

Those units are in meters, not feet. It's a geolocation, using the UTM grid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system