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iamian33

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Greetings ...

I am having difficulties with dimensioning my building location on the site.  When my property lines are non-parallel, I can only snap to the corner of the property, not a perpendicular point.  The dimensions need to go from the corner of the building perpendicular to the property line. 

Can someone suggest a best-practice for this issue?  Thanks.

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Typhoon

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Try with the "TAB" key, tab, tab, tab until you have the corner point, then select the property line... if not create some Ref. Planes then you can dimension like you want... after this you can hide those ref. planes

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iamian33

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thanks Ty.

That helped a lot.  But my issue extends to dimensioning site elements like driveways, walkways, etc.  I have used the Split Surface command to create these. 

The dimension facility does not allow me to select a toposurface to dimension.  Is there a better choice to create these site elements?  I thought that toposurface was the correct way to go. 

Guess I'm searching for a best-practice guide for site plans ...

Ian

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I know this thread may be old by now but I have a suggestion that could work for you in future.Create a small circle about 1" in Dia. and use this center of the circle as your first dimension point and the second dimension point can then be perpendicular since the centre of the circle is a point and not a line. See attached example.

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iamian33

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nice ... thanks. 

I was breaking the property line and using the new end point, but this is a better suggestion.  I will resist the urge to kick myself for not thinking of this idea myself :o)

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