Lot File Manager

Main Dialog

In the main dialog, there is a spreadsheet list for the lot names along with the block name, lot type and group assignment for each lot. You can edit these values directly in the spreadsheet. There are also function buttons as follows:
Open: selects another Lot File to process.
Save: saves the lot data to the current lot file.
SaveAs: prompts for another file name to save the lot data to.

View: The View options control drawing effects when you highlight lots in the spreadsheet list.
Zoom Current: zooms the display view to include the selected lot.
Highlight Current: highlights the perimeter of the selected lot as a dashed line.
Hatch Current: fills in the selected lot with a hatch.
Restore View on Exit: on leaving Lot Manager, this option sets the display to the original position before running Lot Manager.

Lot Selection: Many of the functions such as Draw process only the lots that are in selected mode. You can toggle which lots are selected with the buttons in the Selection spreadsheet column. You can also use the buttons in the Selection section to select the lots to process.
Select All: marks all the lots as selected.
Clear All: unselects all the lots.
Invert Selection: flips currently selected lots to unselected status and currently unselected to selected status.
Load Selection: sets the current selection status from a .LSS file.
Save Selection: saves the current selection status to a .LSS file.

Add: creates a new lot. The new lot name is automatically generated by incrementing from the highest lot name.
Remove: deletes the currently selected lots.
Copy: creates new lots as copies of the currently selected lots.
Edit Current: brings up a dialog editor for the highlighted lot (see below).
Move Up/Down: changes the order of the highlighted lot in the list.
Sort By Block: sorts the lots by block name order first and then by lot name within each block.
Sort By Lot: sorts the lots by lot name only without using the block name.
Clockwise Order: sets the order for the lot points for the selected lots as either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Point Group: creates a point group for the lot points of the selected lots.
Draw: draws the selected lot perimeters and annotation (see below).
Report: reports the selected lots (see below).
Original Coordinates Utilities: has methods for tracking lot coordinate transformations of the current coordinates relative to the original coordinates.
Export: output selected lots to a new lot file as a way to make a subset lot file.

Edit

This dialog allows you to edit the lot name, block name, group, coordinate file, starting station, ending station and the point numbers that define the lot. A curve is specified by the PC, radius point and PT point numbers. The Large Arc option indicates a curve with an included angle greater than 180 degrees. The Select button allows you to specify a new name or location for the coordinate file associated with the lot.
Add: adds a new point to the lot.
Remove: removes the highlighted point from the lot.
Move Up/Down: changes the order of the highlighted point in the list.
Reverse: reverses the order of the points.
Set POB: sets the point of beginning, starting point, to the currently highlighted point.

Draw

The Draw routine allows you to draw polylines for the lot perimeters as well as annotate the lot linework and areas.
Draw Lot Polylines: The Closed Polylines method creates a closed polyline for each lot. The Lines and Arcs method draws the sides of the lots as a series of lines and arcs. The advantage of the Closed Polylines method is that each lot is completely defined by the closed polyline. The advantage of the Lines and Arcs method is that there are no overlapping entities for common borders between lots. With the Lines and Arcs method, the program draws the common border entities only once. The layer for the polylines is set by the Lot Type which is defined in Define Lot Attributes. If the Lot Type is not defined, then the polyline are drawn in the current layer.
Label Lines and Arcs: Labels the bearing, distance, and curve data using the Auto-Annotate command. See Auto-Annotate for more details.
Label Areas: Labels the area, and optionally the name of the selected lots using the Area Settings dialog. See Area Defaults for more details.
Hatch Areas: Hatches the lot areas.
Create Esri MSC Attributes: Defines an Esri MSC format lot feature in the drawing with the lot attributes.
Erase Previous Entities: Erases lot polylines and labels from earlier runs of Draw to avoid duplicates.

Report

The Report routine has several types of reports.

Report Areas Only: When checked only the lot name, block name, and area are included in the report.
Report Stations: Controls whether to report the distance along the lot perimeter.
Report Elevations: Controls whether to report the elevation from the coordinate file for each lot point.
Report Point Descriptions: Controls whether to report the description from the coordinate file for each lot point.
Report Station/Offset To Reference CL: This option prompts for a CL file that is used to calculate stations and offsets for each of the lot points to include in the report.
Add Page Break between Lots: Formats the report so that each lot definition begins on a new page when printed.
Use Report Formatter: When checked, the report is output to the Report Formatter where it can be customized as well as exported to Microsoft® Excel or Microsoft® Access. See Report Formatter in for more details.
Report Closure By: If the Start/End Coordinates method is used, closure error distance is typically 0 (perfect closure—you end where you start). If the Angle/Distance Precision method is used, then the actual bearings and distances (computed from the coordinates) in the report are used, and due to the rounding used to present the bearings and distances, minute closure errors will occur which will be reported.
Report Precision: Specify the decimal precision for reporting coordinates, distance and angles on the report. The precision for the areas is defined in the Area Defaults command.
Unequal Radius Tolerance: When reporting the curve data for a lot, the two radial lengths are compared. If the difference in their length is more than this value, it is noted on the report.
Check Lot Report: Checks that the area for all the lots assigned to a Group Block-Lot add up to the area of the area of the enclosing group lot.
Lot Report: Creates a report using the report settings.
Legal Description Report: Writes a legal description using the same routine as the Legal Description Writer command. See the Legal Description Writer section of the manual for more details.

Lot Report

Lot File: C:\sample\CivilDemo.lot

CRD File: C:\sample\CivilDemo.crd



LOT 55           OF BLOCK 1, TYPE: LOT

PNT#   Bearing          Distance  Northing     Easting      Station   

36                                3374.827     4631.668     0.000     

  Radius: 642.845   Length: 85.660    Chord: 85.597    Delta: 07°38'05"

  Chord BRG: S 60°07'05" W  Rad-In: N 33°41'58" W  Rad-Out: N 26°03'53" W

  Radius Pt: 8 3909.649,4274.994  Tangent: 42.894 Dir: Right

  Tangent-In: S 56°18'02" W  Tangent-Out: S 63°56'07" W

  Non Tangential-Out

41                                3332.181     4557.451     85.660    

       N 26°03'53" W    175.000  

42                                3489.384     4480.558     260.660   

  Radius: 467.845   Length: 62.341    Chord: 62.295    Delta: 07°38'05"

  Chord BRG: N 60°07'05" E  Rad-In: N 26°03'53" W  Rad-Out: N 33°41'58" W

  Radius Pt: 8 3909.649,4274.994  Tangent: 31.217 Dir: Left

  Tangent-In: N 63°56'07" E  Tangent-Out: N 56°18'02" E

  Non Tangential-In  Non Tangential-Out

37                                3520.420     4534.571     323.001   

       S 33°41'58" E    175.000  

36                                3374.827     4631.668     498.001   

Closure Error Distance> 0.00032 Error Bearing> N 70°14'59" E

Closure Precision> 1 in 1550913.7 Total Distance> 498.001

LOT AREA: 12950.1 SQ FT OR 0.3 ACRES