Compass

The center of the compass indicates AccuDraw's origin point. The Civil AccuDraw compass is only displayed when Civil AccuDraw is active. It can also be disabled in Settings operation.

The compass is always circular and is marked by a number of tics. The default is 4 compass points, this can be changed in Settings Display.

The number of compass points can be defined in AccuDraw Settings Display.

Compass Shortcuts

The compass can be rotated with the V, B, T, RQ, RE Shortcuts. The north arrow on the compass will always point to north as defined in Settings > Design File > Angle Readout.

If the Civil AccuDraw settings have context sensitive turned on (default), then the compass auto-rotates in a similar fashion to MicroStation AccuDraw:

Note that rather than Direction being shown, the label and value are now an angle. This is because the context is based on the direction of the preceding line segment rather than an absolute direction.

Use the T (Top) shortcut or the corresponding drop-down to return to a pure direction.

The angle/direction settings used in Civil AccuDraw are taken from the DGN settings.

Note: See Design File Settings Dialog Angle Readout category topic of MicroStation help.

Key-in: civilcoord rotate <base/element/front/orientview/quick/side/top/view>