How To Draw Legal Description In Autocad

Create highly customizable Legal Descriptions directly from CAD geometry inside AutoCAD, BricsCAD, or IntelliCAD. This legal writer contains a fully featured discussion processor, or you tin can export the description to Microsoft Word in a single click. Work with geometry, either using a unmarried polyline, a drove of lines & arcs.

Instantly Visible Results
The main Legal Writer dialog is shown below. Immediately upon selecting objects, the results are shown to the correct in our HTML compatible word processor.

There are four principal areas of this dialog, detailed below.

Function	Description
Objects:	For quick legals, you can only select a airtight polyline or a drove of lines and arcs to form the boundary.
Results:	For those without a favorite word processor, a complete usable editor is built in. • Open, Save, and Print contents. • Undo/Redo support. • Control font properties like bold, italic, and underline. • Command justification left, center, and right. • Clipboard Cut, Copy, and Paste. Export the results easily. • Send to an CAD mtext object. • Send to Microsoft Word in one click. If you don't use Microsoft Give-and-take, you lot can simply click the [Select All] push, then the [Copy] push, and your ready to paste into any Windows compatible discussion processor.
Closure:	This small box in the lower left of the dialog is potentially the most important. Equally each description is being generated, the calls created are nerveless to summate closure. These calls are re-traversed, as if the calls were manually entered into a traverse routine to cheque closure. This can be an important help in determining the quality of the results.

Start Paths
When you demand to describe how to get to the first of the description, you lot can choose a multi-segment polyline or a collection of lines and arcs. This reference path is processed in the aforementioned fashion as the boundary calls and the descriptive text placed above the purlieus description.

Acquire Descriptions
When the Legal Description Writer dialog appears, it collects all the potential descriptions from the drawing. This includes text and mtext objects, along with description attributes from bespeak blocks.

CAD Text/Mtext
Eagle Point, Softdesk, or SurvCADD signal blocks
User blocks with DESC attributes.

Y'all can set the description search radius. When the legal is being created, and information technology gets to the end of a line/curve segment, it looks through the potential clarification collection for the closest description found. If it's within the designated altitude, information technology is placed in the body of the legal (using the [PntDesc] field).

Number Words
Instead of using digits for the results, yous can choose to use number words. For instance, instead of 123.34 you tin take "one hundred 20 iii point three four". This increases the longevity of your legals, insuring that 8 never starts looking like 3 afterward copies and faxes.

Take for instance, the curve segment template cord in the dialog above. The user can change the wording in any manner. Whenever a calculate field is needed, you tin either type it in or choose it from the keywords menu (which also contains brief descriptions). Each field (in brackets) gets replaced with the calculated value when each call is processed. A complete listing of fields is shown below:

Curve Segment:

[ArcLength]	Arc Length
[BrgBegCen]	Bearing Begin to Radius Point
[BrgCenEnd]	Bearing Radius Bespeak to Terminate
[CallNum]	Sequential Call Number
[CardMaj]	Cardinal Direction (4)
[CardMin]	Cardinal Direction (viii)
[CenNorth]	Centre Bespeak Northing
[CenEast]	Centre Indicate Easting
[ChordBrg]	Chord Bearing
[ChordDis]	Chord Altitude
[ChordNor]	Chord North Azimuth
[ChordSou]	Chord Due south Azimuth
[ConcDir]	Concave Direction
[ConcCardMaj]	Concave Cardinal (4)
[ConcCardMin]	Concave Key (8)
[External]	External Altitude
[IntAngle]	Interior Angle
[IntNorth]	Intersection Bespeak Northing
[IntEast]	Intersection Signal Easting
[MidOrd]	Center Ordinate
[NorBegCen]	North Azimuth Begin to Radius Bespeak
[NorCenEnd]	Due north Azimuth Radius Bespeak to End
[PntNorth]	Indicate Northward Coordinate
[PntEast]	Indicate East Coordinate
[PntDesc]	Point Description
[Radius]	Arc Radius
[RevCom]	Reverse or Compound
[SouBegCen]	Southursday Azimuth Brainstorm to Radius Betoken
[SouCenEnd]	South Azimuth Radius Indicate to End
[Tangent]	Tangent Length
[TanNon]	Tangent/Non Tangent
[TurningLR]	Turning Left/Right

Line Segment:

[NorAzi]	North Azimuth
[SouAzi]	South Azimuth
[Begetting]	Begetting
[CardMaj]	Central Direction (4)
[CardMin]	Cardinal Direction (8)
[Distance]	Altitude
[PntNorth]	Betoken North Coordinate
[PntEast]	Point Due east Coordinate
[PntDesc]	Point Description

Reference/Boundary Kickoff:

[PntNorth]	Point Northward Coordinate
[PntEast]	Point East Coordinate
[PntDesc]	Point Description

Boundary Ending:

[AreaSF]	Area in Foursquare Feet
[AreaAC]	Surface area in Acres
[AreaSM]	Area in Square Meters
[AreaHE]	Surface area in Hectares

Header & Footer:

[Date]	Process Date
[Fourth dimension]	Process Time
[Clo*]	All Closure Fields
[DwgName]	Active Drawing Name
[DwgPath]	Active Drawing Path

Central Directions
The [CardMaj] keyword returns four increments existence Northerly, Easterly, Southerly, or Westerly. The [CardMin] keyword will return these 4 besides as Northeasterly, Southeasterly, Southwesterly, and Northwesterly. The field [CardMin] is useful fifty-fifty in precision legals to describe the general direction a curve is heading. Fundamental options likewise exist for the concave direction of curves.

Other Settings
The configuration dialog as well allows consummate control over bearings, units, descriptions, etc.

Function	Description
Bearings:	Use messages similar "N " or complete words like "North " on listed bearings.
DMS Separators:	Utilize symbols similar "°" or words like "Degrees".
Units Precision:	Control the precision of angles, distances, coordinates, and areas separately. Utilize number words (explained above) every bit well as a comma when distances exceed 1000.
Raw Data:	The plan tin can collect the calls of the legal description and write them to a TDS RW5 file later processing.
Clarification:	Optionally change the example of plant descriptions, and set the search radius to exist considered constitute.
Paragraphs:	The text will flow the fashion you want. Values from 0 to three allows for continuous flow appropriate for word processors, through triple spaced.

Important: This depression cost standalone tool does not provide all the functionality of the same tool in MapWorks or C3DTools. Those packages support the use of named parcels (using our functionality or Civil3Ds) and reporting of multiple parcels. Those packages too support referencing of an alignment for inclusion of alignment values such equally station/outset of purlieus points. They also support system points (such as AECC CogoPoints in Civil3D). This low cost tool does not support whatsoever Civil3D objects.

Reviews:	Professional Surveyor, February 2005.
	Civil4D.com, An Incredible Tool for Surveyors, September 2006.

Requires (one of the following):
• AutoCAD 2022-2012 (32/64bit) • AutoCAD 2022-2014 (32/64bit) • AutoCAD 2022-2017 (32/64bit) • AutoCAD 2022-2021 (32/64bit) • BricsCAD v15 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v16 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v17 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v18 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v19 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v20 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v21 Pro Windows • BricsCAD v22 Pro Windows • CMS IntelliCAD 8.three/8.4 32/64Bit • CMS IntelliCAD 9.0/ix.1/nine.2 32/64Bit • CMS IntelliCAD 10.0 32/64Bit • CMS IntelliCAD 10.one 64Bit