http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/ The Visual CADD Group Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:42:09 GMT Adrian Scott http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24826 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24826 Charles's question has prompted me to upload an updated version of PointID to the Files section of the Yahoo site. The main difference between version 1.5 and Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:20:52 GMT Adrian Scott http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24825 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24825 Charles, If you want to draw the points in VCADD, your best bet is to convert them to UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates. The UTM coordinates are Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:55:21 GMT Clift Norris http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24824 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24824 Here is another calculator for such things (with formulas). http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/09/11/finding-distances-using-latitude-an d-longitude/ -Clift Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:16:39 GMT Charles Young http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24823 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24823 Thanks to all who have replied and those who may still reply. As always this group has the answers. Charles To: visualcadd@yahoogroups.com From: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:43:01 GMT Gregory M. Richard http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24822 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24822 Charles, Google Earth should be able to do exactly what you want. You can enter your long/lat values, then use the ruler tool to manually measure the Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:42:18 GMT Russell Masters http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24821 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24821 Hi Charles, Try this link. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gccalc.shtml Russell Tracks Building Software email tracks@... web http://www.acadsltns.com.au Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:41:48 GMT Damian Elias http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24820 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24820 Charles, The best I can suggest is that you translate them onto another geoid projection consistant with the region the two points are located; that is in Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:30:46 GMT Charles Young http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24819 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24819 I need to be able to enter two Lat Lon points, connect them with lines, then get the distances in miles. Help Charles Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:56:22 GMT Mathey, Steve http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24818 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24818 I have been running Vcadd 5 in Vista for a year now with no problems. I also have VMware installed, but do not need to run it for Vcadd. Just a note about Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:50:08 GMT dave_mucha http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24817 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24817 Since I still have to keep GC around for much of it's functionality, I am wondering if anyone tried the Generic Cadd in Win 7 ? Dave Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:23:11 GMT Gordon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24816 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24816 Thanks. I found: http://cben.net/ Which had what I had used before and they had what I needed. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:01 GMT Stephen Toth http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24815 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24815 Here is a link that might help http://www.caddprimer.com/CAD_Symbols_symbol_library/CAD_symbol_symbols_library.htm ... [Non-text portions of this message have Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:28:38 GMT Francois vanderSpuy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24814 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24814 I just bought a laptop with Windows 7 and upgraded to Windows 7 Proffesional right off the bat with the understanding it can run in XP mode to allow older Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:07:50 GMT James Kintz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24813 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24813 Absolutely no issues wrt VCADD, 32 or 64 bit. I've run VCADD on both. As far as Win7 otherwise, there are a couple of install things to look out for. If you Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:47:29 GMT Jim Rohbock http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24812 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/visualcadd/message/24812 Ditto – I’m using Windows 7 and Vcadd on my laptop and no problems. From: visualcadd@yahoogroups.com [mailto:visualcadd@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim