legal descriptions

[wbrustle]

Does anyone know if Civil 3D has the capability of helping to write a legal description if the bearing and distance are in the drawing? Or is there anything contained within CIvil 3d about descriptions?

[wfberry]

You can find a parcel writer under Parcel in the TOOLBOX.  Toolbox is a tab on your Toolspace.  I cannot tell you any more than that because I use Dotsof't's Parcel command in Mapworks.  Terry Dotson's legal writer has to be the best of the best.

Bill

[Jay_B]

As Bill mentioned you can create a Legal Description from a Parcel using Toolbox>Reports Manager>General_Legal_Description_for_Parcels. Not aware of any other way to create a Legal in C3d, below is the sample output from reports.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF: SINGLE-FAMILY: 105

From the POINT OF BEGINNING; Said curve turning to the left through an angle of 27° 48' 32.3", having a radius of 125.0800 feet, and whose long chord bears S 03° 32' 10.2" E for a distance of 60.1145 feet to a point of intersection with a non-tangential line.

Thence, N 90° 00' 00.0" W for a distance of 125.2651 feet to a point on a line.

Thence, N 00° 00' 00.0" E for a distance of 60.0000 feet to a point on a line.

thence N 90° 00' 00.0" E a distance of 121.5573 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING;

Containing 7257.35 square feet

[wbrustle]

thank you for the information.....do you know if a tutorial exists for this? What about editing the description. Is that possible? How do you get owners names, and street names incorporated into the description?

[jmayo-EE]

A third party option is Q-Legal found here.

http://www.budcad.com/Products.htm

Work great. It's also nice working on these in MS Word.

[_Hathaway · Accepted solution]

We used Budcad and loved it. However, with Civil3d and bit of setup with your phrasing files and such (this can be a little bit of a headache and requires some trial and error) you can create legals quite easily

[wbrustle]

ok thanks for all your input....I will check out the options

[cindieh]

Try LegalAid for AutoCAD  Here is the link:  http://agtcad.com/products/legalaid/index.html.