For those of you who work with a lot of imported drawings this tip will make navigating around, and manipulating, these types of designs much easier.
Many imported drawings use a world coordinate system, typically UTM, to accurately reference the location to a particular part of the world. The resulting X and Y coordinates are often very long and therefore difficult to read both onscreen and in reports. Additionally they may also exceed the formatting limits in some parts of IRRICAD and not be displayed.
Setting a “User Origin”, in Settings|Grid/Origin, simply displays all X and Y values relative to the specified origin point. For example let’s say you have a design containing objects having coordinates ranging from 20000 to 20500 in X and 10000 to 10300 in Y. After setting a user origin of 20000,10000 all coordinates displayed would now range between 0 and 500 in X and 0 and 300 in Y.
An easy method to set a user origin is:-
1. Place a point, using Draw|Point, at the lower left corner of the extents of the drawing. The exact position isn’t important.
2. Bring up the Object Info dialog for the point (select the point then Object Info on the Right-click menu).
3. Now select the coordinates by dragging your mouse and highlighting them, make sure you don’t highlight “P1”. Copy the coordinates (Ctrl +C or click the Copy button) and close Object Info dialog.
4. Go to Settings|Grid/Origin and Paste the coordinates into the “User Origin” edit fields by highlighting the “0” in the “X” field and pasting using Ctrl +V. The coordinates will automatically be inserted into the X and Y fields.
5. Tick the “Enable User Origin” check box and click [OK] on the dialog. Now the coordinates displayed on the screen, in reports and warning messages will now be much more manageable.
Notes:
The original world coordinates are still retained internally in IRRICAD. This means that when importing another drawing (with the same coordinate system) into the same design, or exporting the design, the world coordinates will be used.
You can toggle between the world coordinates and your user coordinates by using the “Enable User Origin” check box.
The coordinate “Copy and Paste” method, described in 3. and 4. above, may also be used to insert coordinates into the Goto Coords dialog. Note in versions older than Pro Version 10, each coordinate will need to be copied in to their box individually.
The exact position of the user origin can be set to a specific item on the plan e.g. an end or corner of a fence line. In this way the coordinates on the design will reflect the distance from this item on the plan.
We hope you have found this helpful. If you have a tip you would like to share, please email your tip to Irricad Support
Many imported drawings use a world coordinate system, typically UTM, to accurately reference the location to a particular part of the world. The resulting X and Y coordinates are often very long and therefore difficult to read both onscreen and in reports. Additionally they may also exceed the formatting limits in some parts of IRRICAD and not be displayed.
Setting a “User Origin”, in Settings|Grid/Origin, simply displays all X and Y values relative to the specified origin point. For example let’s say you have a design containing objects having coordinates ranging from 20000 to 20500 in X and 10000 to 10300 in Y. After setting a user origin of 20000,10000 all coordinates displayed would now range between 0 and 500 in X and 0 and 300 in Y.
An easy method to set a user origin is:-
1. Place a point, using Draw|Point, at the lower left corner of the extents of the drawing. The exact position isn’t important.
2. Bring up the Object Info dialog for the point (select the point then Object Info on the Right-click menu).
3. Now select the coordinates by dragging your mouse and highlighting them, make sure you don’t highlight “P1”. Copy the coordinates (Ctrl +C or click the Copy button) and close Object Info dialog.
4. Go to Settings|Grid/Origin and Paste the coordinates into the “User Origin” edit fields by highlighting the “0” in the “X” field and pasting using Ctrl +V. The coordinates will automatically be inserted into the X and Y fields.
5. Tick the “Enable User Origin” check box and click [OK] on the dialog. Now the coordinates displayed on the screen, in reports and warning messages will now be much more manageable.
Notes:
The original world coordinates are still retained internally in IRRICAD. This means that when importing another drawing (with the same coordinate system) into the same design, or exporting the design, the world coordinates will be used.
You can toggle between the world coordinates and your user coordinates by using the “Enable User Origin” check box.
The coordinate “Copy and Paste” method, described in 3. and 4. above, may also be used to insert coordinates into the Goto Coords dialog. Note in versions older than Pro Version 10, each coordinate will need to be copied in to their box individually.
The exact position of the user origin can be set to a specific item on the plan e.g. an end or corner of a fence line. In this way the coordinates on the design will reflect the distance from this item on the plan.
We hope you have found this helpful. If you have a tip you would like to share, please email your tip to Irricad Support
