Just discovered a little problem with the Deed Writer in Carlson Survey 2010. Draw yourself a closed polyline of any shape to represent a "parcel of land". Now use autoannotate to label your bearings and distances. Now use the Deed Writer to create your legal desription. So far, everything is just fine.
Now, just for fun, explode that polyline and list one of the lines. There's a differance between what is labeled and what is listed isn't there? Pretty good differance. You send that drawing to the client and he lists the bearing and distance on that line, he's gonna be peeved. You'll get all appologetic and erase the "error" and relable stuff. Guess what. The new label matches the old label. List the line and THAT still does not match the annotation. What tha'...........
Carlson has been notified of this problem and hopefully a fix will be out soon. In the mean time, type in "units" and click on the DIRECTION bar and reset the Base Angle back to EAST. You'll see the bogus base angle at the bottom of the window. Some programmer forgot to set things back at the end of the code.
Are you Using Twist Screen?
Or some ignorant LDD method?
I would have thought this would have been brought up a few years ago.
Be careful if you have points on line in drawing the actual figure to get the proper outbounds.
Be careful if you are creating linework that is not based on point coordinates.
Once reset, does the proper angle remain in that drawing? subsequent drawings?
Paul in PA
Are you Using Twist Screen?
No twist screen or view. The Legal Description Writer resets variables and then does not reset them when it finishes.
If I Use Twist Screen?
Then use Deed Writer, then change Twist Screen, I would get different results in Deed Writer?
I am not sure that Deed Writer should have to change or even queery such variables.
Did AutoDesk change certain variables like "twang" that have been basic for years?
Is this error prevalent in the IntelliCAD version?
I do not have 2010 so cannot check it out myself.
Paul in PA
If I Use Twist Screen?
It really has nothing to do with twistscrfeen. Twistscreen was not involved in the sample shown. Twistscreen, being the same as dviewtwist should have no play in this issue.
I am running the autocad embedded Survey 2010, so I cannot address the effect ob Intellicad.
It's simply a matter that the deed writer resets the base angle to do its thing and then does not reset to the default value upon completion. It has to be a coding error.
I Am Trying To Grasp Why It Resets The Base Angle At All
And in order to reset the base angle it has to first queery something in the drawing.
I can remember way back when Carlson functions were lisp routines. You could tell certain routines did not begin and/or end with ^c^c to clear out parameters. It was simple to add the control characters yourself and things worked smoother.
Paul in PA
I Am Trying To Grasp Why It Resets The Base Angle At All
Unfortunately with the Embedded version that's not possible.
I Am Trying To Grasp Why It Resets The Base Angle At All
According to Carlson, this may be because we do not have the latest build of Carlson Survey. My copy is dated March 2010. Anybody out there have a later version (The latest is October 2010)? If so can you do what was described in the initial post and see if you get the same result?
I Am Trying To Grasp Why It Resets The Base Angle At All
I have received a fix to this problem. It involves updates to 3 fas files. If anyone else runs into this problem, send me an email and I will send copies of the fas files.
