Organizing Deeds

[DaveM]

All,

I am curious how some of the surveyors here organize the  many deeds they draw in a project. Currently we create a layer with the name of the deeded property and place all of the lines and curves on that layer. It is not uncommon for us to have many deeds in a single drawing. I have though about making a separate drawing for each deed, having a Property-Deedname layer, as well as many options for organizing this information. I briefly thought of parcels, but many do not close perfectly.

Any thoughts?

[_Hathaway]

We create each deed, survey or plat in our base drawing. Then we Wblock them out to a central database which is sorted by a Townhship-Range directory structure which then has a directory for each section. We save each file per the recording data. Of course we have pre-defined layers for the construction lines for ease of use when inserting or xrefing back into the project.

[DaveM]

Mike,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. I had never really considered storing them per section Township and Range.