2006/11/24
I discovered that when you use this routine to change the orientation of a drawing for plotting purposes the routine will apparently default to a "Counterclockwise" setting when the routine is finished. Consequently when you revert to further calculations after using this routine any direction entries will be treated in the Ctr-clkwise direction.
For those of us surveyors who like to work in clockwise bearings or azimuths it is very frustrating to have to deal with this unwelcome change.
In order to correct the unrequested change it in now necessary to go into the routine to manually change back to clockwise and to correct the direction so that north and east are really north and east.
Also in that routine the direction that you enter is automatically flipped as it exits the routine so that in order to get 270d in the screen on exit you have to type in 90d.
I further discovered that if you go as far as toggling on the Surveyor View option from the Mstools menu and then cancel without proceeding the program has modified (at least in the one file I tried) the 270d to 257d 31' 17". I have no idea why it would change this angle by 12d28'43". This is the kind of scenario that you may execute when you change your mind or realize that you are in the wrong routine so the routine should be changed to introduce whatever changes are necessary closer to the end of the routine.
Also if it is necesary in the routine to revert to ctr-clkwise to deal with the program then it should at least remember the settings and return them to what they were before you used the routine.
Others may at least appreciate what action is triggering this unwanted change of settings.