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Re-Creating a Deed Using Line Tools

posted by on April 27, 2022
The upcoming exercise will help you apply some of the tools you’ve learned so far to reconstruct the overall parcel.
When you open the file for the exercise, you will see a legal description with the following information (the metric file will have different lengths, of course):
From the POINT OF BEGINNING at a location of N 186156.65', E 2305474.07'
Thence, S 11º 45' 41.4" E for a distance of 693.77 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, S 73º 10' 54.4" W for a distance of 265.45 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, S 05º 59' 04.4" E for a distance of 185.89 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, S 45º 55' 02.4" W for a distance of 68.73 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, N 06º 04' 37.0" W for a distance of 217.80 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, N 73º 21' 22.5" E for a distance of 4.22 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, N 06º 04' 51.6" W for a distance of 200.14 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, S 87º 32' 10.4" W for a distance of 121.22 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, N 02º 25' 32.2" W for a distance of 168.91 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, N 15º 38' 57.5" E for a distance of 283.16 feet to a point on a line.
Thence, N 06º 19' 22.4" W for a distance of 79.64 feet to a point on a line.
N 76º 55' 49.8" E a distance of 250.00 feet Returning to the POINT OF BEGINNING;
Containing 5.58 acres (more or less)
Follow these steps (note that the legal description for metric users is located in the DWG file as text):
  1. Open the 0106_Legal.dwg or (0106_Legal_METRIC.dwg), file.
  2. Turn off dynamic input by pressing F12 if it is enabled.
  3. From the Draw panel on the Home tab of the ribbon, select the Line drop-down and choose the Create Line By Bearing command.
  4. At the Select first point: prompt, use endpoint object snap to snap to the arrow headof the note indicating POB.
  5. At the >>Specify quadrant (1-4): prompt, enter 2 to specify the SE quadrant and then press ↲.
  6. At the >>Specify bearing: prompt, enter 11.45414 and press ↲.
  7. At the >>Specify distance: prompt, enter 693.77’ (211.4615 m) and press ↲.
  8. Repeat steps 5 through 7 for the rest of the courses and distances.
  9. Press Esc twice to exit the creation workflow and exit the Create Line By Bearing command. The finished linework should look like Fig.
    The finished linework
    The finished linework.
  10. Save your drawing. You’ll need it for the next exercise.
Creating Lines
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