The Cogo & Design Module is a powerful, comprehensive and intuitive surveying and civil design tool forsurveyors and engineers. This module includes data collection, field reduction, field to finish, deed plotting,legal description, coordinate geometry (COGO), predetermined area routines, road layout, radial stakeout,centerline stationing, street intersection/cul-de-sac design, parking layout, drawing/labeling lot lines & arcsand calculating/labeling areas. It is an exceptionally productive tool for developing finished plats, large orsmall. Many high level features (e.g. data collection, field reduction, COGO, advanced design... ), normallypurchased separately with other software packages are affordably bundled in one unified menu withinSurvCADD's Cogo & Design Module.

The Cogo & Design Module is the core of SurvCADD, benefitting small and large civil firms and governmentagencies alike. Title surveys, boundary surveys, minor and major subdivisions, commercial building sites,utility mapping, land management, road, railroad and public work projects; the Cogo & Design Module mapsand lays out these tasks, providing easy to use and powerful civil solutions integrated inside AutoCAD.

Cogo & Design Module

File Modify Display Draw Inq-Set Pnts COGO Design Area Annotate Misc

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Data Collection for Sokkia, Leica, TDS, SMI, C&G,Pentax and others directly transfer to create SurvCADD coordi-nate files. Users can save money and steps because they do not need to use external transfer programs. The fieldinput/editor and reduction routines include angle balance, elevation balance, closure by compass, crandall, transit,least squares and options for state plane adjustment. Powerful "Field-to-Finish" turns field codes into cornersymbols with descriptions, line work, arcs and break lines, all layerized. Office drawings and contours maps areestablished and "jump-started" by the field crew. Point numbers can be numeric or alpha numeric, as in "HUB2".Users can input and plot deed descriptions on screen. Legal description formatting is highly flexible, adapting toany style. Symbol and linetype libraries can be modified or appended. The "Survey Text" routines generate platsand lot surveys fast with automated building dimensioning, offset dimensioning and adjoiner text. Lots can be sizedquickly by graphical predetermined area methods (e.g. simply pick any side to slide or adjust). The Cogo & DesignModule includes most of SurvCADD's 200+ "Utility" features such as "Extend by Distance", which creates quickbuilding footprints and "Join Nearest" which out performs AutoCAD's Polyedit Join. All routines are fully Englishand Metric.

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Coordinate Geometry (COGO)SurvCADD's four main COGO routines be-low can be used to reduce any field surveydata, input deeds, check surveys, calc. lots,and do a myriad of survey tasks.

Survey data is entered as: Bearing quad-rants, azimuths, angles right & left or de-flection angles right & left (from abacksight) and angles defined by pointnumbers. Distances are entered as slopedistances, horizontal distances or by pointnumbers. To reduce elevations vertical &zenith angles or change in elevation in-cluding HI and ROD heights may be entered.

� Points are screen plotted as you traverseor enter sideshots. Inverse, traverse andsideshot data are reported as bearings or azi-muths, horiz. distances and coord's.� Manually entered field data using inverse,traverse and sideshot routines can be toggledON to store to a file for review, editing andreprocessing. Traverse and sideshot dataare entered/reduced together.� When inversing from point to point newlocations are entered as point numbers orscreen picked. The current occupied pointand backsight point numbers are displayedcontinuously on AutoCAD's side-bar.� Scaled printer plotting coordinate pointsto laser or dot matrix printer, directly from fileand independent of AutoCAD.� Toggle Lines ON/OFF when traversing.� Locate by Bearing-Ang & Intersect com-mands, screen traverse and create points byBB, BD & DD intersect routines.

� Convert Entities to Points - Selected lines,arcs, polylines and 3D polylines are storedas SurvCADD point numbers and/or a coor-dinate file (P,N,E,Z). Points are created onall endpoints and radius points on selectedentities.� Station Polyline - Station polylines at anyinterval for index and intermediate tick marks.Station labels plotted perpendicular or par-allel. PC & PT station & line plotting. Createoffset points at even and odd stations along

COGO MENU

Special COGO routines� Numeric Pad COGO (CC) - Cogo routinetraverse or compute, BB, BD or DD inter-sect, with all entry possible directly fromnumeric keypad.� Plot Deed Description (PDD) - Enter deedsdrawing lines/arcs with annotation and pointnumbers. Displays closure results, area andperimeter output to screen, printer or file.� Legal Description - Writes a complete le-gal description for any lot defined as apolyline. Format legal descriptions to anystyle. Output legal description to screen,printer or file.

� Locate Points (LP)� Inverse (I)� Traverse (T )� SideShot (SS)

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centerline at constant left, center and rightdistances. Station and offset data saved au-tomatically to each point's description forstakeout and road layout.� Offset Point Entry - Create individual off-set points at any station (odd or even), at aleft, center or right offset distance.� Calculate Offsets - Select a polyline or analignment file and from a range of pointsnumbers or selected points, report their sta-tion and offset. Station and offset data canbe stored to point descriptions and ap-pended to existing descriptions.

COGO Reports� Radial Stakeout (RS) - Output Angle Right,Azimuth or Both, Horiz/Slope Distance &

Coords. for stakeout.� SideShot Inverse (SI) - Inverse by range ofpoint numbers from one location to pointswith distance and desc. filter.� Curve Info - Display curve information forany curve entity or picked arc length. Dis-plays both roadway and railroad degree ofcurve, chord curve length, excess, chordbearing/azimuth, chord length, delta angle,external, middle ordinate, tangent length andcoordinates of PC, PT and radius.� Polyline length - Displays length on anypicked 2D line segment, entire length for a2D polyline and slope and horizontal lengthfor a 3D polyline or line segment.

� Bearing & 3D Distance - Displays hori-zontal distance, slope distance, elevation

difference, vertical angle, slope percent,slope ratio, bearing and azimuth between anytwo picked points or entities. (In Inq-Setmenu.)

COGO MENU

Data CollectionData Collection is found in the Misc Menuin the Cogo Design Module. SurvCADDdownloads and uploads from these popularbrands of data collectors:TDS HP48/90/100/200 & Huskey, SMI,Sokkia SDR 2X & 33 standard and expert,Lieca GRE3/4, Lieca GIF 10, Pentax SC5 &SC200, Topcon FC48 & FC1/4/5 and Trans-port, Zeiss Rec 500 and Corvallis CMT.

Field to Finish - SurvCADD's Field Coding SystemField data is collected by the Survey Data Management System (SDMS) format, defined byAASHTO. (See "Connectivity of Survey Points with SDMS" in the surveying trade magazinePOB April/May 1995 issue, page 62.) SurvCADD implements the SDMS method or what werefer to as the "Figure Number Method", in the AutoCAD environment. Data can be collectedin any order left to right, right to left, randomly and over several days. If alpha or numericdescriptions are entered using SurvCADD's Field to Finish coding method, survey data at theoffice is read directly into AutoCAD and drawn layerized as lines and arcs, smooth edges, breaklines and corner symbols with descriptions. This method of field collection organizes the fieldoperation and tremendously increases productivity in the office.

Edit-Process Raw Data File� Field data may be reviewed and editedprior to computing survey adjustments inEdit-Process Raw Data File command.� Survey adjustments include Angle Bal-ance, A djust Elevations, Compass,

Codes listed alphabetically from Coordinate file.

Field to Finish� SurvCADD's Field to Finish software willpre-connect similar codes as break lines,building lines, fences, rock walls or anytype of line.� Field to Finish will place corner symbols,open circles, utility poles, fire hydrants,trees... by point description.� All features drawn are layerized with op-tional descriptions in AutoCAD.� Option to analyze codes by sorting codesalphabetically with full description andrange of points sharing each code.� Additional text can be appended to anycode description by typing a forward slash"/" after the code (e.g. MH/PSE&G #492).� Data with more than one code are plottedin separate layers defined by each code.

COORDINATE FILE: ‘C:\SC12\DATA\BOWLES.CRD’

CODE CODE POINTS NUMBERSDESCRIPTION BY CODE

(blank) <NOT DEFINED> 51-53,1004,1021BARFD IRON BAR FOUND 1006BB BOTTOM OF BANK 1007-1011,1013BB1 BOTTOM OF BANK 1077-1078BB2 BOTTOM OF BANK 1048-1049BS BOTTOM OF SLOPE 1039-1040,1042CLD C/L OF DRAIN 1099-1100CLDR C/L OF DRIVEWAY 1051-1056,1075CLDR1 C/L OF DRIVEWAY 1060-1065,1067CLDR2 C/L OF DRIVEWAY 1072-1073CLS C/L OF SEPTIC 1098COR BLDG COR 1017-1020COR1 BLDG COR 1095-1097EDW EDGE OF DRIVEWAY 1005EW EDGE OF WOODS 1000-1003,1031EW1 EDGE OF WOODS 1080-1084FP CHAIN LINK FENCE 995-999GS SPOT ELEV 1029,1032-1033NF NAIL FOUND 38-40NS NAIL SET 1066PERC PERC TEST 1030,1041,1043PROP PROP COR 1012TB TOP OF BANK 1078,1091114 points have 23 distinct codes.

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� Downloading and uploading are accom-plished without leaving AutoCAD.� Downloading includes the coordinate file,raw survey field data or both.� Raw survey data from the field is down-loaded to a backup and formatted for Edit-Process RAW field data, our field editor.The backup can be used to recreate at anytime a new formatted field survey file forprocessing.� Upload coordinate points or range ofpoints with description filter.

Crandall, Transit closure routines for bothopen and closed traverses.� All adjustments are applied to traversepoints and sideshots are reprocessed fromthe adjusted traverse coordinates.� Least Squares and State Plane (NAD 27/83) traverse adjustment.

Drawing Lines & Polylines� 2DLine (2DL) - Draw lines by point num-ber or picking. Lines drawn by the 2DLinecommand are always at zero elevation.� 2DPline (2DP) - Draw polylines, with con-tinuous line and arc segments, by point num-ber or picking. Polylines drawn by the2DPline command are always at zero eleva-tion.� Locate by Bearing/Angle - If you togglelines ON in COGO, Locate by Bearing/Anglewill draw lines by bearing, azimuth or turnedangle. The Traverse command will also drawlines.� 4 sided BLDG - Makes a parallelogram froma two sided polyline or two connected pickedlines.� Extend by Distance - Extends any existingline or polyline perpendicular left or rightfrom picked segment endpoint. Also drawsby bearing or turned angle from picked edge.Perfect for drawing building footprints, pa-tios, steps, angled bay windows or anystructure. (Found in Modify menu.)� Coordinate File Utilities - "Draw Entitiesby Point Number" draws lines, arcs,polylines with lines and arcs or 3D polylinesby point number. Inputing a dash as in 31-50 or 98-87 is always understood to indicatedrawing between a range of points ascend-ing or descending. (In Points menu.)

Drawing CurvesThe following SurvCADD commands drawarcs in addition to AutoCAD's 11 existingarc commands (found in SurvCADD's Drawdrop down menu)and AutoCAD's polylineand fillet commands.� PDD-Plot Deed Description - Allows forentering tangent or non-tangent curves indeeds with radius & arc length labeling alongarc. (In Cogo menu.)� 2DPline (2DP) - Draw arcs in polylines bypoint number or by picking.� Curve from Two Tangent L ines - Draw acurve between any two lines or continuouspolyline line segments by radius, arc length,chord length, mid-ordinate, external, tangentlength and degree or curve.� Curve from Tangent Line - Draw curve leftor right from tangent line/polyline by radiusand either arc length, tangent length, chordlength or delta angle.� Compound or Reverse Curve - Draw re-verse or compound curve from picked edgeby radius and arc length, tangent length,chord length or delta angle.� Best Fit Curve - Draw curve by fitting a

Street Intersections, Cul-De-Sacs and Parking Stalls� Defaults - Define default offsetsand return radii for EOP & ROW.� Street Intersections - For 2, 3 or 4 wayintersections between any straight and/orcurved sections.

Design Menu best fit curve along a group of points.� Curv Calc - Draw curve on screen or fromline using any two variables defining a curve.� Point on Arc - Create point along existingarc by arc length from either arc PC or PTendpoint. (In Cogo menu.)� Extend Arc - Extend arc by arc length, con-tinuous or broken. (In Draw menu.)� Spiral Curve - Draw spiral curve in and/orout along two joined lines or polyline seg-ment with horizontal curve between spiralsections.

� Best Fit L ine L inear Reg - Draws a linewith an average bearing from selected points.No pivot point is held.

Design Street Intersections Cul-de-sac Design

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� Standard, Teardrop and bend cul-de-sacdesign - Design from a centerline line or curvesection any type of cul-de-sac.� Parking Stall Design - Draws parking stallsleft, right or both sides perpendicular orangled.� Best Fit L ine - Draws a best fit line from apivot point through a group of selectedpoints. Great for holding a fence corner andcreating an average bearing line from selectedfence posts on line.

� Area Label Defaults - Define area labelingdefaults, precision, font name, layer, text sizeand units to plot (e.g. acres, square feet, pe-rimeter length, meters, hectares...).� Inverse with Area (IA) - Area by point num-bers and/or picking on screen. Labels re-sults on screen, file or printer. Prompts todraw area as a closed polyline.� Map Check by Pnt#'s (MC) - Area and clo-sure results by point numbers only. Labelsarea and closure results to screen, file orprinter.� Area by L ines & Arcs - Label areas bylines and arcs or closed polyline. Labels re-sults on screen, file or printer.� Area by Interior Point - Label areas bypicking interior point surronded by any num-ber of closed multiple edges. (Edges can belines, arcs, polylines with line and arc seg-ments or 3D polylines.)� AutoCAD Area - AutoCAD's area command.Allows you to add and/or subtract multipleclosed polylines.� Label Last Area - This command labels thelast area calculated. Great for plotting theresults adding and/or subtracting areas us-ing the "AutoCAD Area" command.� Sequential Numbers - Label lots, parkingstalls or any feature by sequential numbersdrawn inside a circle, triangle, square or num-ber only. (In Draw menu.)

Area Menu

Area Computations and Labeling � Hinged area - Draws a line from a pivotpoint to an end point along a picked line,typed in bearing or bearing defined by en-tering and/or picking points. Creates a lotsized to an exact user input acreage or squarefoot (S.F.) value. All SurvCADD predeter-mined area commands work with lots thathave multiple edges including both line andarc segments.� Hinged area on curve - Draws a line slidingalong an arc from a pivot point to an endpoint on arc to create lot area equal to aninput acreage or S.F. value.� Sliding side area - Slides any picked closedpolyline edge in or out to create the lot equalto input area. The picked edge retains it'sbearing. Slides picked edge along any lineor arc segment on polyline.� Area radial from curve - Draw line radialfrom arc to an endpoint along a picked line,typed in bearing or bearing defined by en-tering and/or picking points to create a lot toan exact user input acreage or S.F. value.� Lot Description - Screen plots, stores to afile or prints a text description for a lot. Re-port includes area, perimeter, closure results,bearing/distance and arc info for all lines andarcs or polyline selected.� All predetermined area routines and the arealabeling commands read the current "AreaLabel Defaults" and plot only those valueschecked (e.g. Lot Description, Acres, S.F.,perimeter...).

Predetermined Area and Labeling

Area Label Defaults

Predetermined Area Routines

Hinged area Hinged Area On Curve

Sliding Side Area Area Radial from Curve

Area Labeling Features

Area by Interior Point - One pick insideany lot and the area is calculated and labeled.

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Annotate Menu

Labeling� Define annotation labeling defaults, layername, text size, style name, bearing leaders,precision (e.g. bearings to 5", 10", 20", 30",nearest minute...), arrow (crow's feet on arcs& lines labeling).� Auto Annotate - Auto label any line, arc,polyline or 3D polyline with bearing, distanceor both. Arcs or polylines with arcs are la-beled as user defined prior to selection. AutoAnnotate will label directly to line and arctables, great for auto labeling wetland delin-eations and any complex boundary.� Bearing/Distance - Label lines with bear-ings and/or distances by picking any line orbetween two points by picking or point num-bers. Bearing quadrant labels in the direc-tion of picked end. Reverse a quadrant us-ing Switch Bearing Quadrant.� Flip Set - Bearing and distances can beflipped upside down on the same side of theline or flopped over the line.� Annotate w/Leader - Lines/between pointslableled with leaders with bearings/azimuthsand distances. Coordinates points can dis-played with leader.� Global Reannotate - After rotating an anno-tated deed or lots with bearing annotationthis command reannotates bearings or azi-muths to their new true bearing location.� Survey Text - Sets defaults for layer, stylename, text size and precision for labeling off-sets, bldg. dimensions & adjoiner text.� Annotate Arc - Label arcs with any combi-nation of arc info along arc up to three linesabove or below or stack arc data with leaderline.

� Linetypes - Any picked polyline can be con-verted to several linetypes for fences, utili-ties, trees, guard rail, rock walls, hedges andmore. Also "Special Line/Entity" allowslinetypes to be created by inserting any userspecified text or blocks along the line at speci-

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fied intervals.� Label Offset Dis-tances - Perpendicu-lar offset distancesare plotted w ithleader as south/north or east/westfrom property linesfor any picked point(e.g. fence post, ironpipe...to pickedproperty corner).

� Line and arc tables - Multiple line and arctables with headers can be drawn.� Special Leader - Drawsstylish curved leaders with textplacement replacing AutoCAD'sstraight line leader.

� Draw Legend - Storeseveral legend tablesfor corner symbols,linetypes and hatchpatterns to recall, editand plot.� Draw Grid - Draws agrid at any interval ortick marks with north-ing and easting label-

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Coordinate File Format� Separate database for coordinate file

� Enter & assign points as northing andeasting with optional storage of elevationsand descriptions.� Individually create point numbers by screenpicking, digitizing or snapping to AutoCADentities.� Convert groups of entities to points. In-stantly store points on screen and/or directlyto an external coordinate file from selectedentity endpoints and radius points. Createstakeout points for any 2D or 3D site de-sign.� Screen plot points from any existing coor-dinate file by point number, range of pointnumbers and by description filters.

Display, Edit & Modify Points� Points screen plotted with a corner symbolcan include a point number (alphanumericdescription), elevation and description orany combination of these.� SurvCADD includes a symbol library andthe ability to create any user defined sym-bols.� Points with elevations are plotted at theirtrue elevation or at zero elevation, toggledON/OFF .� Positive & negative elevations can have a+ (plus) and - (negative) prefix toggled ON/OFF when screen plotting.� Spot elevations can be plotted as eleva-tions only with the decimal point being theinsertion point of the spot elevation. (Eleva-tion is text not a block).� Points can be plotted as nodes or symbolsonly, at their true elevation or zero elevation.� Layer by Description command - Insertspoints in a layer with the same name as theirdescription or with prefix.� Point labels as point numbers, symbols,elevations and descriptions can be scaledup or down at any time for viewing purposeswhile retaining the true location and values.� Individual point labels can be moved,erased or edited by screen picking.

� Explode SurvCADD point numbers, eleva-tions and descriptions to text. Point labelsretain their original values as text. User de-fined layer names for point numbers, eleva-tions, and descriptions.� Twist points by azimuth, pick line or polylinesegment or follow polyline. (Points retaintheir coordinate location, rotating the pointlabels around their insertion point.)� Add, subtract or scale elevations of pointsand AutoCAD entities by screen selection.� Renumber/compress selected points.

� Change/Replace any block or corner sym-bol. (In Modify menu.)� Change color & layer of any point num-ber, corner symbol, elevation or descrip-tion.

Locate Survey Points

Locate Points

Points Menu

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(*.CRD) and drawing database (*.DWG),allowing instantaneous access to datapoints or ranges of points. Theindependant coordinate database increasesthe speed and ability to handle large coor-dinate files, achieving a smaller AutoCADdrawing size than packages that store pointdata entirely in AutoCAD's drawing data-base.� Numeric coordinate files - points are de-fined as numbers from 1 to 32,767.� Alphanumeric coordinate files - points aredefined as any combination of alpha ornumeric characters up to ten characterslong. Option to assign permision to alpharanges based on user login. This advancedability allows you to designate point rangesto specific departments while limiting ac-

cess to authorized personnel.� Double Precison (16 significant places)on northings(Y ), eastings(X ) andelevations(Z).� Descriptions up to 32 characters long.� Assign multiple coordinate files to sameproject.� English or metric units.

Point Utilities� Translate (move), rotate, align (rotate andmove) and scale (X,Y and Z) points by pointnumber or by coordinates.� Translate, rotate and scale betweenState Plane 27/83, UTM or any user definedcoordinate systems.

� Create new or load existing coordinate file.� Point Protect ON/OFF toggle.� Automatic point numbering ON/OFF toggle.� Toggle ON/OFF elevation and/or description prompt-ing and storage.� List all points, within ranges, by screen selection,polyline perimeter by description filter.� List ranges of unused points.� Edit any point number including, northing, easting,elevation and description within pop-up box.� Delete points by range of point numbers with descrip-tion filter on screen and/or coordinate file.� Renumber selected point numbers +/-.� Create new or update existing coordinate file by select-ing points on screen. (Works also with Softdesk andEagle Point screen plotted points.)� Assign elevations & descriptions by point number orrange or point numbers.� Adjust elevations by +/- or by scale factor for anypoint number or range of point numbers.� Inputting a dash as in 4-10 is always understood toindicate a range of points.

Coordinate File Utilites

Points Menu

Point Conversion Formats� ASCII coordinate file formats specific to Benchmark, C & G, Civilsoft, Maptech,MTI, SDRMap, Simplicity, Traverse PC and Wildsoft can be imported and ex-ported.� Convert SurvCADD screen plotted points to Adcadd point blocks and back.� Read or write any user defined ASCII text files (e.g. P,N,E,Z,D).

Coordinate File Utilities

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