How to draw a property boundary from a survey??

[rob2218]

in Autocad there was a way inwhich you could precisely draw the meets and bounds off of a legal survey. for example, when the properly line says..."S38D22'13"E" there was a way in autocad in which these lines could be drawn to their real world points.........how is this done in archicad?

[Eduardo Rolon]

Project Preferences -> Working Units

[rob2218]

thanks...but can you be a bit more elaborate on what you mean by that?

[Eduardo Rolon]

In your project preferences change your working units to surveyor in order to input the information with the surveyor's annotation. Once you do that the procedure to draw the lines is the same as in Autocad.

[rob2218]

thanks...did that but still doesn't help me in accurately placing lines from a boundary.
Boundary surveys have those 226.56' @ S27 32' 33"E means of measuring the lines of a property. How do I make the pline go to where these surveyors numbers take them???

in autocad, we used to actually input a distance and a surveyors angles but I'm at a loss as to how to do it in archicad.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Type "D"
Type "Distance" 226.56
Type "A"
type "Angle" S27 32' 33"E

[Anonymous]

ejrolon wrote:
S27 32' 33"E

BTW: you don't need the minutes and seconds marks.

s27 32 33e works as well.