Make sure that ACAD "Units" is set to highest

precision for both Units and

Angles. This will eliminate rounding errors.

Save your acad.dwg prototype file with these

settings and life will be good.

Larry Wiechman
wiechman@inwave.com

I tried that Larry. Five decimals on the angles and

four on the retangulars.

That should be enough right? If you have ACAD R12

please try the point command

for  me on that drawing and let me know if it works for you.

Paul Lamar

Hi Paul;
      Since I was away I'm probably too late on this
string, but for the future..........It is a bad practice
to locate radial entities by using deg/min/sec coords.
instead you should use degrees and fractions therof to
the UMPTIENTH decimal place. With that said, the easiest
and most accurate proceedure I have found for actual
target placement of entities (holes in this case), is
mathematical registry................Thus:

-DRAW the hole (circle) in the center of the starting
center.
-Innitiate COPY command, multiple, Pick CIRCLE, click
any place on the drawing for 1st point and type,
@6<38.3697 for second point, this will give you a copy
of the circle (Hole) ACCURATELY located 6.000000" radius
from its origin, at a POLAR angle of 36.3697 deg from
your polar 0 deg REFERENCE.

To CHECK location (In see IF you f----d up)
-Initiate ID command, pick subject entity, enter
and "VOILA" the location can be read, if not enough data
then, initiate the good all LIST command.

This SIMPLE/fast procedure avoids all the headaches and
MAL interpretations between the Designer, Programmer and
the most important person the "MACHINIST".

Paul, I know that you didn't need me to be so wordy and
precise in naming every command entry step, but I did it
for 2 reasons...For the benefit of the weaker ACAD users
and definitely my Hispanic PATRIARCH genes in me :-)

                                        Butch

Hey thanks for the tips Butch. I'll try it.

Paul Lamar
 
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