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How to draw a property boundary from a survey??

rob2218
Enthusiast
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?
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
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Edgewater, FL!
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Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
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Eduardo Rolon
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Project Preferences -> Working Units
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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rob2218
Enthusiast
thanks...but can you be a bit more elaborate on what you mean by that?
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
i>u
Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
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.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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rob2218
Enthusiast
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.

...Bobby Hollywood live from...
i>u
Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
Type "D"
Type "Distance" 226.56
Type "A"
type "Angle" S27 32' 33"E
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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Anonymous
Not applicable
ejrolon wrote:
S27 32' 33"E
BTW: you don't need the minutes and seconds marks.

s27 32 33e works as well.