I just sent this message to tech support, but I thought I would post it here as well:
Carlson 2016 build 160629 with IntelliCAD 8 8.1.1616.82875.P.VC11.x64.RF81a
?ÿI am looking for a way to have the software automatically draw lines from text like this:
South 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds West 695.80 feet
South 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds West 452.00 feet
South 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds West 1298.85 feet
North 00 degrees 29 minutes 10 seconds East 402.11 feet
North 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds East 400.00 feet
North 36 degrees 52 minutes 44 seconds East 63.62 feet
North 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds East 60.00 feet
North 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds East 200.00 feet
South 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds West 60.00 feet
North 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds East 657.30 feet
Please & thank you.
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Try the PDD command.
That requires manual data entry for each course.?ÿ I am looking for a way to copy and paste the multiple courses and allow the software to plot a polygon automatically.
Survey > Process Deed File
You'll need to figure out the format of the .PDD file in order to cut and paste your courses.?ÿ Unfortunately, the Carlson help article does not give that detail.
I can get it to work by changing the settings to fit the format, almost, that is.?ÿ
It doesn't seem to like North, South, East, West.?ÿ So I just ran Edit/replace all, with N,S,E,W, and it works.
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S 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds W 695.80 feet
S 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds W 452.00 feet
S 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds W 1298.85 feet
N 00 degrees 29 minutes 10 seconds E 402.11 feet
N 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds E 400.00 feet
N 36 degrees 52 minutes 44 seconds E 63.62 feet
N 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds E 60.00 feet
N 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds E 200.00 feet
S 00 degrees 00 minutes 30 seconds W 60.00 feet
N 88 degrees 38 minutes 28 seconds E 657.30 feet
Like. ?ÿWill review when I get back to the shop. ?ÿThanks fellas. ?ÿHappy Friday!
I get this far, but I don't know how to proceed from here?
I click SAVE (it tells me there is nothing to save).
I click DRAW (it tells me there is nothing to draw).
EDIT:?ÿ disregard this post.?ÿ I am tweaking the settings, and I am making progress.?ÿ Carry on.
Great!?ÿ The only problem is I rarely get deeds in text format, mostly an image or pdf from the registry.
OCR works sometimes, but not 100%
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Could you explain how you got the deed reader to work? I was trying to figure this out today on Carlson 2019 and could not figure it out.
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Thanks
Trent
See my post above.?ÿ Whatever format your deed is in, you need to match that in your settings.?ÿ If it spells out degrees, minutes, seconds, then change it to that in the reader.?ÿ
Also, make sure you make the Column order reads Angles before Distances.?ÿ And delete Suffixes and Prefixes in the Lines settings, (to match the above example)
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Here's the deed description I am trying to draw using the deed reader. I spelled out degrees, minutes, seconds although there are no seconds, and changed the cardinal directions to N,S,E,W. I changed the column order so angles are before distances. I also deleted suffixes and prefixes in the lines settings. The closest I got was getting Carlson to draw every line with the correct distance but they were all overlapping in the North-South direction. If you have some time to spare do you think you could take a look at the deed I'm using and see if you're able to get the deed reader to recognize the bearings and distances? Thanks for your help.
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I really don??t remember. ?ÿI never used that feature again. ?ÿI just manually type it in.
I loaded your txt file and it plotted fine for me, didn't have to edit or change anything.
Check again.?ÿ I don't know why, but when I tried to do it again, everything had defaulted back.?ÿ?ÿ Weird.?ÿ
But anyway, your txt file works as is.
@jph Are you using Carlson 2019? Seems like there is some setting for me that prevents it from reading it correctly when I paste the text into the reader.
@brad-ott Do you think the deed reader is even worth using?
@brad-ott Do you think the deed reader is even worth using?
It's a cool tool, for sure.?ÿ But I don't use it much.?ÿ As I said 5 years ago, I don't often get a a deed in text format.?ÿ So, I usually just punch it in using the Enter Deed routine.?ÿ
Unless it's an unusually long description, I think that it's probably faster to hand punch than it would be to OCR the pdf, check, format, etc, and run it in the Deed Reader routine
[bump] I found myself on this page looking for possible help with the deed reader. Earlier I was quickly trying to see if the program could help me, but I was having trouble with formatting. So I thought I would take a look on here. Some helpful comments above, thanks.
My interest in this lies not in having OCR capability, but in quickly checking legal descriptions I write myself. I have a policy of doing a manual mapcheck in Carlson of the legal description before I send it to a client. This accomplishes two things: 1) I am forced to carefully re-read the text of my description and catch spelling or grammatical errors; and 2) it checks for closure. Even though I use the legal description writer in Carlson Survey to spit out the calls to write the description, sometimes I fat-finger something and a call gets messed up.
If I get this formatted correctly to read my newly-written legal description calls, I would still need to proofread for typos but would not need to re-type the calls in the description writer. If I can get it to do this, I'll be happy. There appears to be a much more advanced deed reader available from a third party that will deal with the OCR component, so I would likely not use Carlson's deed reader for much other than checking my own descriptions (which are hopefully uniformly formatted).