cavemanwfire Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Having trouble creating a plot Attached is the survey plan and below are the eastern and northern coordinates converted: A X -23.36583993833998 Y -179.4663239019372 60.929m B X -23.36561463518962 Y -179.46622613605112 3.449m C X -23.365697157839413 Y -179.46557255336975 78.013m D X -23.366417882181768 Y -179.46566410758393 69.765m E X -23.36633489636694 Y -179.4663470185025 80.467m Thank in advance FINAL SITE PLAN.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanwfire Posted September 3 Author Share Posted September 3 forgot to mention i'm current using x15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiAngelo Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 What is the problem? Those 5 points create a polygon that is over -23m, -179m from the origin (0,0) If you have the surveyors dxf/dwg file you can import this into chief and all the points in the file will populate in that -23m, -179m location. Alternately you can import the survey pdf, move it to -23m, -179m and resize it to the reverse of scale and then move it to match up with 5 points. (I usually change the polygon color to red temporarily and insure the pdf is on the last layer behind everything and.lock that pdf layer.) Now you can manually add all the other elevation points. (Make them another color and it's easier to monitor your progress.) This isn't as precise but works internally for most uses. If your problem is the house is drawn near 0,0 (far from the polygon coordinates) There are several courses of action here. Let us know what you are trying to achieve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanwfire Posted September 3 Author Share Posted September 3 JiAngo how to actually do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 See if one of these helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00575/creating-a-plot-plan.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1930/creating-a-site-plan-or-plot-plan.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 On 9/2/2024 at 6:16 PM, cavemanwfire said: Attached is the survey plan All you need to do is recreate these points in meters. Place a marker anywhere. Use the transform replicate tool to move the marker using the Absolute Location setting. Enter the values from the survey plan...Easting is X Position and Northing is Y Position. Use the exact numbers followed by 'm' to so Chief knows you want meters. For example: 247879.771m. Press OK. Open the marker again, and repeat that process for point number 2. This time, also select 'Copy'. Press OK. Repeat for all points Draw a polyline connecting the dots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiAngelo Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 Follow Robert's instructions. I used "Input Line" versus "Input Point" and you need to ignore Chief's rounding errors that it creates when drawing something so far away from the origin. To lessen the errors, open a new plan. Copy the above polygon and pasted it near the origin in the new plan. then import your pdf and change the CAD layer to RED. Now resize the PDF 10x and point-to-point moved it to match up the property borders with the red cad box. Note I changed the cad layer line weight to 1000 and also locked the PDF layer. Now you can create a terrain and place elevation points and splines that match up with those your plot plan. Note, the house isn't parallel to any of the lot lines. It is parallel to the front fence line. And here is your local government's GIS site map https://maps.rockhamptonregion.qld.gov.au/HTML5Viewer/?layerTheme=Contours You can turn off the PDF and paste that image instead. Resize it to match the red cad box and now you can figure out approximately where all the trees are in relation to the house. . I hope this helps. Again if your surveyor could send you a dxf/dwg file then you could import that and everything will show up in its exact location. I've added the X15 files for you to play around with. RealWorldPlotPlan.plan OriginPlotPlan-PDFGISimages.plan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemanwfire Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 thankyou for all your all guys you all rock, this was above and beyond what i hoped for once again thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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