Go to Settings Menu, Scale Type and select Decimal
Then right click back to the Settings Menu, select Angle Type and pick Bearings.
Set you input mode to relative polar as well.
Now you can pick your first point, type in the distance, hit enter and type in the bearing in this format N55.24.16W using periods to separate the degrees, minutes and seconds.
Hope this helps!
AJ Blasio (aka Tony)
DataCAD 18 (DataCAD User since v5) Windows 10 Intel CORE i5 8GB Ram
Yes for version 10 and lower (not familiar w/ v11).
Change your Angletyp to "Bearings" in the Settings menu and set the Startang to point towards North(usually straight up the page).
Change the coordinate setting (Insert key) to Relative Polar(Distance/Angle)
Change the Scaletyp according to unit of measurement(Decimal, Engr, etc.).
Now, to enter coordinates simply start a line with your mouse/cursor, hit the spacebar and you're prompted to enter the "Distance" and "Angle".
The distance is (hopefully) self explanitory. To enter the angle use periods(.) in lieu of degrees, minutes & seconds. (ie N45.15.32W)
No spaces or tick marks and upper or lower case don't matter.
Hit the space bar to begin the next line at end of previous line, and so on.
To check your survey accuracy, the last coordinate entered should close the boundary and the cursor should end up at the exact "point-of-beginning". If it doesn't then either you have made an input error or the survey is incorrect.
