Does anyone know of a free/cheep deed plotting software that I could recommend to a CAD-phobic surveyor? It would be worth paying a little for if it could export to DWG (that way I could quickly make him plot-able maps to scale).
thanks
Try Copan -- it's free and does all the cogo. A low-cost version for plotting (and exporting to DWG) will be released soon.
I guess you have AutoCAD and MSOffice in your office.
If you do, you can do deed plotting using AutoCAD alone. You can also utilize the power of Excel as an spreadsheet application by encoding deed information in tabulated form and use the concatenate function to create one column of AutoCAD command. Paste the command text directly into AutoCAD command prompt.
Hope this helps.
amdomag...
What command format do you find that's easiest to paste to ACad?
JBS