In this short lesson you will create a simple drawing. You will enter a 6-sided deed, add a title block, bar scale, and north arrow, add a title and certification text, and plot the deed area.
Note that the Esc key will cancel most commands, so if you choose the wrong command or enter something incorrectly and want to start over, just press Esc.
1 Click the icon for Carlson. You may be presented with a “Startup Wizard” dialog box. If so, click Exit.
2 Under
the Settings menu, click
Drawing Setup. Set the unit
setting to
English and the Horizontal Scale to 50. Click OK.
3 Choose Point Defaults from the Points menu, and, in the dialog box, click Elevations off to eliminate the Elevation prompt. Click Descriptions on and also set the point symbol name to symbol 4 (SPT4), which is the round, open circle. Click Automatic Point Numbering on. Click OK.
4 Under the Survey menu, select Enter Deed Description. Use the default settings as shown in this dialog box image.
Set the To Table Scaler option to 0.00. This
places all of the deed calls in the drawing. The To Table Scaler
determines which deed
calls appear in the drawing and which deed calls appear in a
table. Deed calls less than the To Table Scaler
value multiplied by the Drawing Scale will be placed in a table of
calls. Set the dialog box options to match those
shown above. Click OK.
The command line is the area below the graphics and to the left. When prompted to “Pick point or point number” at the command line, pick a point in the lower left quadrant of your screen to start the deed plotting. If you are prompted for elevation, you failed to turn off the elevation prompt in Point Defaults. Press Esc and return to the Point Defaults command.
The following dialog box will appear
so you can specify where to store the coordinates:
Select the New tab. Then, for the File Name, type in Deed. This creates
a file
called Deed.crd. All Carlson points are
stored in files with
the “crd” extension, which stands for “coordinates.” Click Open.
Now respond to
the command line prompts exactly as shown here:
When you are prompted for a description, enter “Fence Post”.
Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: 125.3500
The quadrant (Q) is 1 for Northeast (2 is Southeast, 3
is
Southwest and 4 is Northwest). The
bearing is 25 degrees, 35 minutes, and 00 seconds. If all digits
for the minutes and seconds are entered as shown
above, then the deed call will be fully plotted, including the
seconds. If only the degrees and minutes were
entered, as in 125.35, then the plot would appear as “N 25° 35’
E”.
Varas/Meters/Poles/Chains/<Distance(ft)>:
200.51 Note that you can
enter
old deeds in the forms of Poles and Links, Chains and Links and even
Varas (a
unit of measurement formerly used in the southwestern states of the
U.S.).
Enter Point Description <Fence
Post>: Iron Pin
Undo/Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: 189.4321
Varas/Meters/Poles/Chains/<Distance>: 225.00
Enter Point Description <Iron
Pin>: press Enter
Pressing Enter selects
the default, which is Iron Pin.
Undo/Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: C
Radius: 75
Curve direction
[Left/<Right>]? press
Enter for right
Non-tangent/Reverse-tangent/Bearing/Chord/DeltaAng/Tangent/<Arc
Len>: 118.17
If you don’t know the arc
length, but you know the tangent, you would choose “T” for tangent.
Enter Point Description <Iron
Pin>: press Enter
Undo/Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: 200.0000
(due south)
If you were to enter just
2 (no degrees, minutes, or seconds), then the deed call would be
plotted “S 000
E”.
Varas/Meters/Poles/Chains/<Distance>: 178.00
Enter Point Description <Iron
Pin>: Concrete
Monument
Undo/Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: 488.2300
This entry specifies Northwest 88 degrees, 23 minutes.
Varas/Meters/Poles/Chains/<Distance>:
300.34
Enter Point
Description <Concrete Monument>: Fence Post
Undo/Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: 454.1109
Varas/Meters/Poles/Chains/<Distance>: 106.93
Enter Point Description <Fence
Post>: press
Spacebar, then press Enter
Simply pressing Enter uses the default text (Fence
Post)
again. To avoid drawing the text “Fence
Post” twice on the end point, press the spacebar, skip a blank
character, and
press Enter.
You have now completed the 6-sided figure (including
one curve).
Undo/Exit/Curve/<Bearing
(Qdd.mmss)>: E
The following results are reported:
SQ. FEET: 83921.8 SQ. YARDS: 9324.6 SQ. MILES: 0.0
ACRES: 1.93
Closure error distance> 0.01708540 Error
Bearing> S 52d5'26" E
Closure Precision> 1 in 66076.89 Total Distance Traversed>
1128.95
SQ. FEET: 82302.9 SQ. YARDS: 9144.8 SQ. MILES: 0.0
ACRES: 1.89
The resulting deed, has a closure of 1:66077. In the initial prozmpt “Undo/Exit/Curve…”, U for Undo would allow you to reenter the previous deed call.
Use the Extents command on the View menu to see the entire area. Then choose Zoom Out under the View menu giving you adequate room for the next step.
5 Under
the Settings menu, select
Title Block. The first dialog
you will
see is shown here:
Select Paper Size B2 (11 x 17), and enter the layer name of BORDER, then choose OK. You will be prompted for the border location, pick a point in the lower left of the survey.
The following dialog appears, allowing you to
enter the
attributes for the Title Block. After
you have completed the title block
entries, as shown below, select OK.
Note that the title line is plotted in large text on
the title
block. Its length, therefore, should not exceed 15 characters.
Your drawing should look like the example below at this point.
Use the Extents command,
found in the View menu, to see the
entire working
area. If you want to move the border,
use the Move command on the
Edit menu. Pick the border lines and the
title block objecm ts (up to 3 picks
total),
press Enter (to end object selection), then pick two points
representing the
vector of the move.
If you want to see a margin around the working area after you use the Extents command, use the Zoom Out command on the View menu. Then use the Window command on the View menu to capture the view and margin you prefer.
If you make a mistake, enter U for undo, or select the
back arrow
icon that appears at the top of the screen.
6 On
the Annotate menu, select
Draw North Arrow.
Accept the default north arrow that is shown at the right side of the dialog, click OK, and place it in the upper right of your drawing. Choose Move on the Edit menu (or Enter M for move at the command line) and move it.
7 On the Annotate menu, select Draw Bar Scale. Accept the defaults, and then pick an insertion point below the north arrow and directly above the “a” in Farmer, and approximately the same distance from both. You can move the bar scale using the Move command on the Edit menu, if you need to.
8 On the Draw menu, select Dynamic within the Text command. Respond to the prompts as shown below:
Specify start point of
text or [Justify/Style]: J
Enter an option
[Align/Fit/Center/Middle/Right/TL/TC/TR/ML/MC/MR/BL/BC/BR]: C
for center justified
Specify center point of text: Choose a
point near the top-center of the drawing.
Specify height <4.00>:
10 Entering 10 make
the title text bigger than the default.
Specify rotation angle of text
<E>: E
Text: Farmer Survey
Text: Ashland, KY
Text: press Enter
To enter a certification in the lower-right of the drawing, again select Text > Dynamic from the Draw menu, or type “dtext” at the command line. If you haven’t done anything else, such as Zoom or Pan, you can simply press Enter to repeat the last command. If pressing Enter does not repeat the Text command, press Esc to cancel. Enter Dtext at the command prompt, and respond to the resulting prompts as shown below.
Pick a point above and to the left of the title block for the certification. You don’t have to enter L for left-justification. The Dtext command defaults to left-justification every time.
Height <10.00>: 4
Rotation angle <E>:
press Enter
Text: Surveyor’s Certification
Text: Press spacebar, then press Enter
Text: I do hereby certify that
the survey
shown
hereon
Text: is a true and correct
representation…..
Text: press spacebar, then press Enter
Text: _____________________________________
Text: Arnold James, PLS
#2534
Text: press Enter twice to end
The following is a closeup of the certification that we just entered:
9 Enlarge
the two title lines
(“Farmer Survey” and “Surveyor’s Certification”) by a factor of 2.0
using the
command Text Enlarge/Reduce on the Edit menu, option Text. When
prompted for Scaling Multiplier, enter
2. Select both the Farmer Survey text
(at the top of the screen, not in the title block) and the Surveyor’s
Certification text. When asked again to
Select Objects, press Enter.
When you are selecting objects, if you select something you don’t want, you can enter “R” at the next Select Objects prompt, and remove items from the selection set. If you want to add objects after you have removed an object, enter “A” at the next Select Objects prompt.
10 Make the enlarged Farmer Survey text at the top of the screen bold by changing its font to the bold font. Select the Text command from the Edit menu, Text, then select the Change Text Font option.
Select Objects: pick the Farmer Survey Text at
the top of
the drawing
Select Objects: press Enter for no more
selections.
Style Name: Bold
11 Select the Edit Text command (under the Edit menu, Text option) to change
S 00°00’00” E to S 00° E. When you are prompted, “Select Text to Edit:” pick the due South bearing text. A dialog box appears as follows:
The degree symbol is represented as %%d. (If you had typed N 15%%d25’35” E in the Dtext command, Carlson would draw that entry as N15°25’35”E.) Click in the text to the immediate right of the quotation mark and press the Backspace key until the text reads as shown here.
Click OK. Press Enter to exit the command.
12 In the enlargement in Step 8 showing the title block and also showing point 5, notice how the linework travels into the circle that represents the point. To clip off the linework at the edge of the corner symbols, use the Trim by Point Symbol command on the Points menu. This command requires that all points be in view, so if you cannot see your entire drawing, use the Extents command on the View menu (sometimes referred to as Zoom Extents). Respond to the following prompts:
Select point symbols
to trim against. Select
objects: ALL
Entering "all" at the command line selects everything on the
screen. Only the linework crossing into the
corner
symbols will be trimmed.
Select objects: press Enter
You can continue to select objects until you press
Enter.
The trimming is completed.
13
Prepare for area labeling by
selecting the Area Defaults
command on the Area menu. The dialog
box shown below appears. Change the Other
Area Labels and Inverse with Area decimal precision to 4 decimal
places. Also, make the Area Text Size Scaler 0.2
(doubled from the default of 0.1).
You are going to compute the area by point number. You could have chosen the Area by Lines & Arcs command. In that command, you would pick the lines and arcs that make up the figure. But since the closure was 0.017 off (the distance from point 7 to point 1), you would exceed the default Max gap tolerance. Unless you change that tolerance in this dialog box to something larger than 0.017, you would get no result using the Area by Lines & Arcs command. So do not change it for this exercise because you might forget to change it back. Instead, you will compute the area by inversing from 1 through 7 and back to 1. Click OK to exit the Area Defaults dialog box.
14 Select Inverse with Area on the Area menu. Respond to the prompts as shown below:
Station/<Pick
Starting point or point number>: 1
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): 2
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): 3
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): R
Radius point number or pick point:
CEN for
center “snap”
Now move the cursor, without picking, to the arc and
see how the
center snap becomes active. When the
radius point is found, pick on the arc.
Curve direction [Left/<Right>]?
press Enter for
the Right option
Pick End of Arc or point number
(U-Undo, Enter to end): 4
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): 5
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): 6
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): 7
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): 1
Pick point or point numbers
(R-RadiusPt, U-Undo, Enter
to end): press Enter to end
A Standard Report Viewer dialog box showing the Inverse with Area results will appear. Select Exit at the top of the dialog box and respond to the prompts as shown below:
SQ. FEET: 83921.8 SQ. YARDS: 9324.6 SQ. MILES: 0.0
ACRES: 1.9266 PERIMETER: 1128.9671
Pick area label centering point (Enter for none): pick a point near the center of the figure, in its interior. The area units you chose in Area Defaults are labeled on the screen.
Erase Polyline
[<Yes>/No]: Y
This erases a polyline that has been drawn over the
original
lines and arcs. The Inverse with Area
command draws this polyline because often you are solving the area from
points
and want the new linework drawn.
You snapped to the radius point using the “cen” snap. Additional object snaps appear under Aperture-Object Snap command on the Settings menu. Since all plotted points have a node, you could have inversed around this figure by using the “nod” snap for points 1 through 7, and the “cen” snap to capture the radius point. Snaps are typically entered at the keyboard as 3 characters (for example, “int” for intersect and “end” for endpoint).
15
Freeze the point numbers to
finish the drawing by choosing Layer
Control on the View menu. In
the PNTNO row, click the sun icon to
change it to a snowflake icon, which freezes the PNTNO layer. Click OK.
The
point numbers remain in the drawing,
waiting to be “thawed”, but they are not displayed.
The final drawing
is
shown here:
This completes the Lesson 1 tutorial: Entering a Deed.