Set your drawing properties to surveyor units. I'm on the wrong computer to give you step by step, but it's under the Civil3D pull down menu.

ok I'll bite, where did you see a "set" date and when does it ever freeze that hard in Houston?

"We both attempted to get the original surveyor to correct thess obvious mistakes, but he refused. I then filed a complaint with the state licensing b...

I would take the shots per coordinates, using the data collector somehow, and leave that golf cart on the trailer. Should be easy enough staying on c...

Yep! I might need a few pointers on that after I collect some data.

When I first started out in surveying I worked with a vertically challenged I-man. I would set the foresights on a three tripod traverse a bit too hi...

thanks, either of those two solutions should work although inconvenient.

My sister has decided that she wants to dedicate the whole property as a cemetery. Since both of the children passed on the property she doesn't want...

Thanks, mys sister says she knows Don and I probably went to school with some of his relatives.

Thanks David and Michael,The property is located in East Dailey, Randolph County. I would imagine that it is considered an active cemetery since thre...

I'll raise you by a hundredthCalling a monument off 0.01' is not the same thing as a boundary course for which there could be a logical and legitimate...

yes it's great for staking what is already calculated but if you want to calculate something in the field you better have another calculator.

I want to change my answer.I am now of the opinion that the trimble software is very basic in the cogo and calculation areas. Also you can take a TDS...

Directing at no one in particular...What is wrong with the record dimensions? :-S If you find a monument at both ends of a line that is 100 feet by re...

?!?! what?The data collector will apply the corrections to coordinate values won't it? Until lately those coordinate values were the only information...