Discover the intricate process of integrating a Meets and Bounds drawing into a deliverable sheet file with added information that includes curbs, sidewalks, and the center line of the street. Learn how to make strategic use of offset, match properties, and layer migration to create a detailed and presentable sheet.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of adding information like curbs, sidewalks, and the center line of the street to a Meets and Bounds drawing, using the offset function to create accurate measures.
- It also explains how to migrate selected lines to different layers in the sheet, making the drawing more organized and easier to understand.
- Lastly, it illustrates how to adjust the view orientation and use the world coordinate system (UCS) to ensure the geometry of the drawing is according to true north, further enhancing the accuracy of the sheet.
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We are getting noticeably closer to integrating our Metes and Bounds drawing into our deliverable sheet file. But before I start finalizing things for the sheet file, I'd like to add some more information on this left-hand side—in particular, curbs, sidewalks, and the center line of the street. If you look right about here in the handout, you can see that we have some offsets we need to deal with.
So I'm going to zoom in, Home tab, then Offset by 2, meaning 2 feet. I'm going to click here and go out, click here and go out, click here and go out. And then, so that's my 2-foot offset. Press Escape, then Spacebar to repeat, 7 (for 7 feet), choose that same line, go out, choose this line and go out, and this line and go out.
I'm showing here the green belt between where the property ends and the sidewalk begins, and I'm showing here the area for the sidewalk. What I'd like to do is to also factor in for the curb. I will go back to Offset; it’s 6 inches, which is 0.5. So I will choose my outer line and go in and do the same thing along the way. Enter, then CTRL+S to save. Now, I'm going to select these three lines and I will migrate them to the layer C-curb.
I hit Escape, I will go to Match Properties, here’s my source, I'm carefully selecting these for crossing, and I'm also selecting these. You'll also notice in the drawing that I have these lines extending beyond the property line. I'm going to choose an arbitrary distance, which I will just say is 5. So I'm going to go 0, then Spacebar for Offset, give it a distance of 5, choose the property line and go up.
I will then choose Extend to this edge, that line segment right there. Spacebar to repeat, here's where I'd like to extend to, and I extend those entities. So I have my property, the sidewalk, the curb, and I need to now show the center line of the street, and I can see that it is 22 feet from the property line to the center. So I will go back to Offset, type in a distance of 22, Enter, pick the property line and go to the left, go down and go down.
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I'm now going to select these entities and I will move them onto the layer C-street center line. I hit Escape, I will extend to here, that center line. I will now erase out this guideline, Zoom Extents, Zoom Realtime.
You can now see that since I've added the curbs, the sidewalk, and the street, my image no longer feels comfortably centered. So I'm going to go back and choose Move the title block from an arbitrary point and move it down and over. CTRL+S to save. I'm also going to move my north arrow from here down to about there. Remember I have running O-snaps on—F3 to turn that off—and I'm putting my north arrow just inside the innermost boundary line. CTRL+S to save. And I believe one thing I'll do while I'm here is to put my P-O-B (point of beginning) in.
I'll go Text, select an arbitrary base point, accept a height of 1.5, accept the rotation angle. It says east—this is an east orientation relative to my current view—and I will then type “P-O-B, ” press ENTER twice, and I will then move this segment down to here. CTRL+S to save, Zoom Extents, Zoom Realtime, CTRL+S to save, and we now have our sheet in a format that we can present appropriately. Now again, this view orientation is simply for my planning for when I eventually include it on my architectural site plan. All of the geometry was drawn according to true north.
If I go UCS, Enter, then Enter again to return to the World Coordinate System, things are normally related to the UCS. You will notice that the crosshairs have now gone red and green as opposed to the standard white. This is the program's way of letting me know—when I visually look at something—that my UCS is not in a plan view relative to my current view.
I'm just going to go Undo, then CTRL+S to save, and here we are, and now we're ready to start working on our A-Sheet 1.0.
