Drawing a Site Plan Autocad Helping Forum
Drawing a Site Plan The site plan you will use has been simplified so that you can draw it with a minimum of steps and get on with the external referencing. The following are essential elements: Property line Access road to the site North arrow Indication of where the building is located on the site The first step is to draw in the property lines. Using Surveyor Units You draw property lines using Surveyor units for angles and decimal feet for Linear units. In laying out the property lines, you will use relative polar coordinates, so you will enter coordinates in the format @ distance angle , in which the distance is in feet and hundredths of a foot, and the angle is in Surveyor units to the nearest minute. Surveyor Units Surveyor units, called in civil engineering, describe the direction of a line from its beginning point. The direction (bearing), described as a deviation from the north or south toward the east or west, is given as an angular measurement i...