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Bo Warlick posted 06-27-2023 05:53

I am trying to create a polyline for a piece of property I am working on. The original surveyed plat has northing and eating benchmarks and the property lines in length and bearing. The bearings for example read S20°24'41"E. When I enter this in TBC it will only accept numeric values. Can someone please help me with the correct method to add cardinal direction bearings in the length & bearing command prompt?

Erik Petersen's profile image
Erik Petersen posted 06-27-2023 07:35

Right click after creating your first point and then choose Bearing Distance?

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Bo Warlick posted 06-27-2023 07:41

Erik, I have done this but the lines do not lay out the direction they are suppose to. The survey I have shows bearing by direction, North, East, South, West, etc so I am hvaing trouble determining the best means to input this into TBC. I am starting to think I need to convert this to lat/long bearing and input it that way.

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Ronny Schneider posted 06-27-2023 13:59

for one thing you can compute in the number edit fields and you could for instance enter it like this

180-20 24 41

But TBC also seems to understand 

S20 24 41E

and from the F1-Help

Nelson Hays's profile image
Nelson Hays posted 06-28-2023 07:17

Default setting is for North Azimuth instead of Bearing. Change that, and input bearing without any symbols: S 20 24 41 E

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Francisco Guerrero posted 06-29-2023 06:23

You should be able to enter the your direction. In the coordinate which you can do this only using Linestring.  “N23.230000,200”

there is no need for right click and selecting type.  Enter your bearing use a comma and then distance.