Carlson Survey question

If you mean that you want to put a symbol showing an iron pipe found and then trim the boundary line...

This is how I do it, put a coordinate point number on the end of the boundary lines.
Tne use "trim by point symbol". Then using the coordinate points you can annotate the bear/dist.

I'm not sure how or if you can trim a line, but not really trim it?

not sure if this helps

We use blocks with wipeouts in them for the marker symbols, and set draw order so the markers are on top of the linework.

I use Carlson 2007, I have a symbol with a masking background. Not sure where I got it, but it works great!

Shoot me an email and I'll send it to you.

Douglas

You can also draw your circle with a z-value, and type hide. i.e., if the linework has a z=0, and the circles have z=1, type hide and they will disappear. Haven't tested it with plotting, though. Blocks w/ wipeouts will also work.

See:
http://update.carlsonsw.com/kbase_main.php?action=display_topic&topic_id=63

The "Trim by Point Symbol" command referenced above and found on the Points menu is a useful tool for trimming the lines out of the point markers if you do not care that it changes the properties of the line so that the annotation would be short if added after this step is taken.

I haven't used the technique of having the point markers take precedence over the linework where they are in the same space but that seems to offer the most potential.

Being a surveyor in a metes and bounds state, I have not done any plats of sectionalized work but in self defence I developed the practice of using the Inverse with Area tool as soon as I get my boundary worked out. I then save the polyline this generates to about three layers. I have the area based on that polyline, I have the annotations based on that polyline and I have the legal description generated off that polyline.

That way, everything that has anything to do with the boundary is based on the same linework. It may be wrong but at least it will be consistent.