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Chapter 2 Getting Started with AutoCAD Land Development Desktop
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To set up the base point and north rotation
Steps
Use
to look up
1
From the Projects menu, choose Drawing Setup.
Set Up a Drawing Using the
Drawing Setup Command
2
Click the Orientation tab.
3
Under Base Point, type
X
,
Y
coordinates for the
base point, or click Pick and select a point from
the drawing.
Setting a different base point affects the view of
the project data only in the current drawing and
does not alter the point database coordinates. All
project data files store their information as
northing/easting coordinates.
Change the Base Point for a
Drawing