For Land Desktop users, the program will import Land Desktop parcels. This isn’t that big a deal, for the most part. Everything has to be either a polyline or lines/arcs. Now, with this version, you can’t use Civil 3D parcels. It’s very unobtrusive and clean – here’s a shot: Since I tend to use menus more than I do toolbars, I went ahead and unloaded the toolbar in favor of the menu. In 2007, it loads via the CUI (Customizable User Interface), and puts up a nice pulldown menu and one small toolbar.
In my conversations with Terry, seems as if great things may be headed down the tracks, but for today, we’re going to talk about LegalWorks.įirst of all, LegalWorks loads into any AutoCAD-based program from version 2000 and up. In addition, I also got to download ToolPac 10.0 and XL2CAD, a tool used to import Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into AutoCAD products. He offered to let me look at, work with, and review his program LegalWorks. This is something that is sorely missing in Civil 3D, and should be added to make the software truly capable from a surveying point of view. Terry happened to have a program that did just what I was asking for – including the property “tie” in a parcel description. However, that changed over the weekend.Īs I was thinkiing aloud (?) in the Autodesk Civil 3D Discussion Groups last week about parcels, I got an email from Terry Dotson of DotSoft. So far, I’ve never found a really, really good legal description writer. LandXML Reporting does a fair job, but editing the XSL style sheets is difficult at best, and requires a working knowledge of the XML language. To date, there has been no really good way to automate the writing of legal descriptions.
The same information is there, but the phrasing is different everywhere. Each surveyor has his or her own way that they want the legal to read. If you were to ask for a legal description on a particular parcel definition from 20 different surveyors, they would all look different. Legal descriptions are the bane of the surveyor’s existence. One of the most boring and lengthy jobs that a surveyor can do is writing legal descriptions.
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