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I do a lot of remote Civil 3D drafting, so a big chunk of my week is turning deed and boundary calls into clean linework — which means I'm always tinkering with ways to cut down the tedious parts.
Right now my go-to for plotting bearing/distance calls is a small LISP routine: I key in a traverse (quadrant bearing + distance, curves by radius/arc or delta) and it draws as I go, then I check closure at the end. Beats typing line and curve commands one at a time, and it keeps me from fat-fingering a bearing halfway through a 40-call description.
Curious what everyone else runs for this:
- Stock Civil 3D COGO / transparent commands, LISP, or a dedicated tool like Deed Reader Pro?
- How do you handle curves and non-tangent segments?
- Anyone have a clean way to catch a bust in the calls before you've drawn the whole thing?
Always happy to steal a better workflow — what's working for you?
Posted : July 16, 2026 12:41 pm
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If you are dealing with legals that have a large number of lines a lot I really like the idea of a program that can read it and generate linework. Having to parse the legal yourself before having a LISP do the drawing doesn't seem like a lot of gain.
One thing I routinely do, especially with complicated legals, is to OCR the text, enter it into a WORD document, and arrange it so that each "thence" statement is a paragraph (ie/ each leg is a separate line of text). Also, if the text happens to be in ALL CAPS I reduce it to sentence case. The letters simply become better formed. The idea is to just make it more readable. I find that this really helps me. After so doing I can run through drafting the lines in C3d by Bearing/Distance pretty quick.
Posted : July 16, 2026 2:46 pm
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Hi, I created Deed Reader Pro. It uses AI to plot deeds in PDF, image and Word format. First the deed is transcribed to text format with AI and the metes and bounds descriptions are automatically extracted. AI is then used to parse the bearing and distance calls, monument descriptions, passing monuments, and adjoining tract descriptions into an editable Call Table. Data can be manually edited with real-time plot updates and then plotted directly in AutoCAD, Civil3D and IntelliCAD.
It is free to try for 30 days:
www.deedreaderpro.com
You can also view my posts in the vendor section of this site:
https://rpls.com/forums/deed-reader-pro/
This post was modified 2 months ago by matt8200
Posted : July 22, 2026 10:49 pm
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ChatGPT or Claude does it just fine
N10,000, E7,000, Z100.00
PLS - IL, MO, AR, KS, MN, KY
Posted : July 24, 2026 5:26 am
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We have been very happy with deed reader pro, both the performance of the product (superb) and the support and responsiveness to requests for upgrades/changes. You have to use it about twice a year for it to pay for itself.
Posted : July 24, 2026 6:58 am
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ChatGPT or Claude does it just fine
That's what we did, was super easy to create and customize to fit our needs.
Posted : July 24, 2026 7:07 am
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Folks I talk to use a mix of DeedReaderPro, our platform (of course), and then we've been hearing that vanilla ChatGPT or Claude have gotten better over time and especially in the past few months - though still struggles with ambiguity and/or will confidently state wrong things, especially with curves.
What % of the shapes that you're plotting are based on legal descriptions vs plats/maps?
Posted : July 24, 2026 11:36 am