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Land surveying units in Catia drafting?

Land surveying units in Catia drafting?

Land surveying units in Catia drafting?

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I was asked to regenerate a basic land survey in the USA. I have never done this and went to Catia for this, as being most familiar with the drafting work bench. However, I realized this will not be an easy task because the units common to the surveying world are unique and does not appear to be predefined in Catia.

Is there going to be a reasonably easy work around for this or will I have to ditch Catia and go to another software that is better for this application?

I am able to create angles based on DMS (degree/minute/second), but the dimensioning format is not really right as they commonly just have the coordinate defined as example N08'54'23"E 1240ft. I can get Catia to display the angles but not add the length. The USA system works in a angle quantrant system, not Azimuth based.

RE: Land surveying units in Catia drafting?

I drew a plat drawing with CATIA several years ago on some land we were sub-dividing. CATIA worked well for me to adjust the property lines and determine the acreage of each lot, as well and the direction and distance of each measurement. On the drawing; instead of dimensions, I just added Text by typing the measured angle and distance. By manually typing, I was able to make it similar to your example format above.

I'm not 100% sure, but I doubt you can customize the CATIA drafting standards to get dimension with both the angle (direction) and distance as a single dimension.

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