SS - Move a Drawing to New Coordinates

IMPORTANT: This procedure will not affect the bearings and/or distances contained in your drawing. However, if you have coordinate values written in the drawing, they may be incorrect upon the completion of this procedure, unless you are moving a shifted drawing back to its original position. You may need to manually replace/update any existing coordinate values in the drawing.

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2. Identify a point easily found in the drawing, and write down its actual, correct coordinate values.

4. Use the Selection Filter (SF) and select ALL to select the entire drawing.

6. When asked for the point to move, click the Nearest Point (

) or the Grab All (

) cursor. Place the cursor so the point identified in step 2 is under the cursor, and left-click the mouse. This will select the point.

7. When prompted at the top of the drawing window for the “point to move to,” press the letter C (for coordinates) and a window will open for you to enter coordinate values. Enter the coordinates separated by a space (either Northing Easting, or Easting Northing as indicated in the title bar of the prompt window) and click OK. Your drawing will move back to the new coordinates. Left-click somewhere on the drawing screen to un-select the drawing.

3. Type DR to draw a rectangle. Enclose the entire drawing in the rectangle. Since there is no Move command in version 2, we will use the rectangle to cut and paste the image at the proper coordinates. After you have drawn the rectangle, click Cancel or press Esc to exit the draw rectangle command.

4. Type GP to get a point. Snap to the upper-left corner of the rectangle you drew in step 3. Write down the coordinates and click Cancel.

5. Type ZW to zoom a window around a point in the drawing that you know the coordinates of. Type GP to get a point and snap to that point. Write down the coordinates of the point and click Cancel, then compare those coordinates with the actual, correct coordinates (from your coordinate file) for that point. You can use the Edit Coordinates routine (EC) to view the correct point coordinates. Calculate the difference between the two Northings and between the two Eastings, and write these differences down.

6. Using the Northing & Easting differences computed in step 5, and using the rectangle coordinates you recorded in step 4, calculate what the coordinates for the upper-left corner of the rectangle should be if the drawing were in the correct location.

8. Type SF to open the selection filter. Click Select All, then click Close.

9. Right-click your mouse, then select Edit > Cut (or press <Shift><Delete>) to cut the image from the drawing and place it in the Windows Clipboard.

10. Right-click your mouse, then select Edit > Paste (or press <Shift><Insert>) to paste the image from the Windows Clipboard back into the drawing. When you are prompted to Enter the paste position, press C to open a coordinate entry dialog box. Type the coordinates you calculated in step 6 into the coordinate entry dialog box, making sure that you get them in the proper order, as shown in the title of the dialog box. Separate the coordinate values with a space. Click OK.

12. Left-click your mouse somewhere in the drawing screen, but not on any entity. This will un-select then drawing entities.

13. Left-click your mouse on the rectangle and press Delete to erase it.