DEPARTMENT OF GEODETIC

ENGINEERING
Visca, Baybay City, Leyte, PHILIPPINES
Telephone: (053) 565-0600 local 1027
Email: dge@vsu.edu.ph
Website: www.vsu.edu.ph

GEng 114-Cartography
Laboratory Exercise No. 4-Preparation of Isolated Plans Using CAD

1 The Program Outcomes (POs)

The POs addressed in this activity: a, h

a Apply knowledge of mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering sciences

to the practice of geodetic engineering;
h Understand the effects and impact of geodetic engineering on the environment
and the society;

2 The Laboratory Activity

2.1 Activity Objectives

1. Create an Isolated Plan using CAD
Requirement:

Isolated Survey Plan (drawing file only)

Materials:

1. Any Computer-Aided Drafting software (preferably AutoCAD)

2. Spreadsheet software (e.g. MS Excel)

Data:

Lot Information:

Lot No.: 100

Owner: Nilo B. Macarat
Location: Brgy. Agutayan, Hilongos, Leyte

Beginning at a point marked “1” on the plan, being N. 22 deg. 23’ E., 4741.38 m. from
BLLM No. 1, Cad. 566-D, Hilongos, Leyte.

Corner Eastings Northings

1 19706.897 20727.574
2 19653.350 20772.043
3 19655.519 20789.750
4 19646.487 20828.078
5 19827.365 20856.169
6 19817.126 20835.221
7 19828.363 20827.971
 8 19842.522 20785.434
9 19881.172 20732.190
10 19891.283 20708.380
11 19873.610 20684.586
12 19853.024 20662.863
13 19839.055 20665.566
14 19828.777 20652.159

All points referred to are indicated on the plan and are marked on the ground by P.S.
Cylindrical Concrete Monuments 15 x 40 cms. Bearings:Grid.

Subdivided Lots:

The lots are to be subdivided into four (4) parts with the following details:
Lot No. Lot Claimant Description
• Located at the northern portion of the
mother lot.
Lot 100-A Cielo A. Macarat
• Subdividing line that starts from corner 3
to corner 7
• Located below Lot 100-A
Sheena M. delos
Lot 100-B • Subdividing line starts from the midpoint
Santos
of corners 1 and 2 to corner 8
• Located below Lot 100-B
• Corner 1 of lot 100-C is located 15m
from Corner 1 to Corner 14 of the
Lot 100-C Juanito A. Macarat mother lot
• Subdividing line start from corner 1 (Lot
100-C) to the midpoint of corners 8 and
9.
• Located at the southern portion of the
Lot 100-D Allan A. Macarat
mother lot

Procedure:

A. Computing for the scale and the center of the lot

Important Note: In computing the scale, even though the drawing area in the survey
plan template is 38 cm by 38 cm, 30 cm should be used for allowance/space for other
details.

Difference Scale
Extreme North
Coordinate
 Extreme South
Coordinate
Extreme East
Coordinate
Extreme West
Coordinate
Northings (Center of the lot)
Eastings (Center of the lot)

See Annex XXIV. Scales to be used in Plotting Isolated SurveyPlans in DMC

2010-13 as your guide.

B. Creating, Saving, and Setting AutoCAD Project

1. Open CAD software

2. Go to the Drafting Setting by typing DSETTINGS in the command bar.
3. Select the Dynamic Input tab, click Settings in the Pointer Input.

4. A Pointer Input Settings window will pop up. Select the Cartesian format and
Absolute coordinates in the Format section.

5. Click OK.
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6. Go to units by typing UNITS in the command bar.

7. In the Drawing Units window, change the Angle Type into Surveyor’s Units and Insertion
Scale into Meters. Click OK.
 Creating layers

1. Click on the Layer Properties in the Home tab.

2. Add Mother Lot, Sublots, and Corners as your new layers. You may change the
color of each layer for better visualization.

Saving the AutoCAD Project

1. One AutoCAD session is equivalent to one AutoCAD Project. The information on the
project file: such as layers, layer properties including symbolization, settings, units,
and the last viewed extent, will be viewed when reopening a previously saved project.
The principle of Saving a project is like saving a Word file.
2. Save the project as GEng114_LabEx4.dwg, then browse to your directory to where
to save your project.
3. Once the project is saved, the user can retrieve it later and continue to work with it.

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B. Plotting the Mother Lot Data

Plotting the mother lot

1. Select the “Mother Lot” layer as your active layer.

2. In the command bar, create a polyline by typing PL, then enter.
3. Specify start point by typing the coordinates of the Eastings and Northings of corner
1.
*Note that in writing the coordinates, encode the coordinates of Eastings, Northings
(Eastings comma Northings).

4. Continue to input the coordinates of the remaining corners.

5. After inputting the last corner (corner 14), type C or Close, then Enter to close
the polyline.

Adding Lot Corners

1. Select the layer “Corners” as your active layer.

2. In the command bar, type “C” or “circle” then enter.

3. Select the center point for circle the Endpoint or vertex of your plotted mother lot.

4. Specify the radius of circle based on your computed values.

*Make two circles at each corner of the mother lot. Make sure that the Diameter of
the outer circle is 2 mm (map distance) while the inner circle has a 1.5 mm
diameter (map distance).

The lot corner should look like this:

5. Continue adding circles on the remaining corners. Or you may select the double
circles and type “CO” or copy in the command bar and paste it to the remaining corners.
Again, do not forget that the center of the circle must be the vertex or endpoint of lot
corner.

Labeling the Lot Corners

1. To determine the lot corner number, select the endpoint/vertex of the lot.
2. Right click and select properties.

3. In the properties window, the current vertex under the Geometry section indicates
the Lot corner number of the selected endpoint.

4. Type “DTEXT” in the command bar.

5. Type the corresponding lot corner of each endpoint/vertex.

NOTE: There are no set standards for the text height of the corner labels but a
common practice is to use 0.2 for 1:100 scale and 2 if the scale is 1:1000. If your
computed scale is 1:500, you will multiply 0.2 by 5 to get a corner label text height of
1.

Your output look somewhat like this.

c. Plotting Sublots

Lot 100-A

1. Select the Sublots layer as your active layer

2. Create a subdividing line that starts from corner 3 to corner 7.

3. Create a PL (polyline) starting from corner 3 (mother lot) clockwise direction to
close Lot 100-A
4. The area of the sublot can be determined by typing “list” in the command bar.
Then select the sublot polygon.

5. Type “DTEXT” to add a label on the sublots corner number. Corner number must
be written inside the boundary of the sublot.
6. To label the sublot, type “MTEXT” in the command bar and add the Lot number,
sublot land owner, and the corresponding area of the sublot.
 7. Specify the first corner at the center of the sublot.
8. Type the lot number, sublot owner, and its corresponding area. For the area of the
sublot, you may round off to the nearest whole number.

LOT 100-A
CIELO A. MACARAT
AREA = 5894 SQ. M.

9. You may rotate the label for better visualization. Your output look somewhat like
this.

Lot 100-B

1. Create a subdividing line that starts from the midpoint of corners 1 and 2 to
corner 8.
2. Repeat Steps 3-9 in the Plotting sublots of Lot 100-A.
3. Add a single circle with a 2mm map distance for the new corner of the lot.
4. Take note of the corresponding sublot number, landowner, and the area of the
sublot.

Lot 100-C

1. Corner 1 of Lot 100-C is located 15 m from Corner 1 of the mother lot to Corner
14.
2. Create a subdividing line that starts from corner 1 (Lot 100-C) to the midpoint of
corners 8 and 9.
3. Repeat Steps 3-9 in the Plotting sublots of Lot 100-A.
4. Add a single circle with a 2mm map distance for the new corner of the lot.
5. Take note of the corresponding sublot number, landowner, and the area of the
sublot.

Lot 100-D

1. Label the remaining sublot as Lot 100-D. Corner 1 of the sublot is located at
Corner 14 of the mother lot.
2. Repeat Steps 3-9 in the Plotting sublots of Lot 100-A.
3. Take note of the corresponding sublot number, landowner, and the area of the
sublot.

E. Adding adjacent lots

 A parcel of Land, lot 9714 Cad. 566-D situated at Barangay Agutayan, Municipality of
Hilongos, Province of Leyte, Island of Leyte.

Bounded on the N. along line 4-5 by lot 9887; on the E., along lines 5-6-7-8-9 by lot
9915; along line 9-10 by lot 9998; on the S., along line 10-11-12-13-14 by lot 9997; on the W.,
along line 14-1 by lot 9914; along lines 1-2 by lot 9911; along lines 2-3-4 by lot 9912.

In CAD:
1. In the Home tab, cick on the Layer Properties.
2. Create a new layer and named it as “Adjacent Bdry”.
3. Close the Layer Properties window.

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3
2

4. In the Properties section in the Home tab, select on the line type and click on Others.

2. A Linetype Manager window will pop up. Click on Load.

3. Select JIS_02_0.7 and click OK.

 4. In the layer properties, click on the Layer properties. Select the Adjacent Bdry layer.
5. Click on the Linetype of the Adjacent Boundary layer.

6. A new window will pop up. Select JIS_02_0.7. Then Click OK.

7. You may now start creating lines for the adjacent boundary. You may use LINE
command. Sample output is shown in the figure below.
 8. For refinement, type TRIM in the command bar. Trim the lines that are inside the circle/
corners of the lots. Sample output is shown in the figure below.

E. Making the technical description.

1. Compute the bearings and distances of the mother lot and the subdivided lots
(sublots) using the Northings and Eastings coordinates given above.

Take note: Round off to two decimal places for linear measurements (i.e. Distance of line
1-2 = 11.40 m) and the nearest minute for arc measurements (i.e. Bearing of line 1-2 = N
45°30’ E)

Tabulate your answers using the format below. Use MS Excel or any spreadsheet software
to input all your data. Tables will be copied to the CAD later.

Technical
Description
Line Bearing Distance
Boundary
TP 1
1 2
3 …
LOT 100-A
 TP 1
1 2
3 …
LOT 100-B
TP 1
1 2
3 …
LOT 100-C
TP 1
1 2
3 …
LOT 100-D
TP 1
1 2
3 …

Sample Output (this table shows different data in your lab exercise):
F. Overlaying the Map Template

1. Using the map template in the previous exercise, edit the text in the template
based on the given information.
2. Additional information:
a. Rurban code: 083719
b. Zone V
c. PPCS-PTM/PRS 92
d. Bearing: TRUE
e. Date of Survey: January 01, 1900
f. Date of Submission: February 01, 1900
g. Geodetic Engineer: Instructor’s Name
h. Land use: Agricultural

3. Insert the Chief, Survey, and Mapping Division certification in the template. You
may put this in the upper right corner of the drawing frame.

4. Select all features of your template and save it as a block.

5. Rescale your map template based on the computed scale. Since the drawing area
of the template is 38 cm x 38 cm (Map distance), resize the plotting lots using your
computed scale of the lot

In CAD:
a) Select all the objects of your lot. This includes polylines, circles, and text.
b) Type Scale in the command bar
c) Specify base point: Any corner of your lot.
d) Choose to reference/ click R.
e) Specify reference length by clicking two succeeding corners of your lot (i.e.,
corners 3 and 4)
f) Specify the new length: Input the map distance of selected corners (i.e.,
map distance of corners 3 and 4)

6. Overlay the center of your drawing area to the center of your lot. Use copy as
a clipboard if your template is in the other dwg file.

G. Importing OLE to CAD

1. Select the active sheets of the technical description in your MS
Excel/spreadsheet.
2. Copy and paste it into AutoCAD. A table will be created in your CAD.
3. Rescale it according to your preference.
4. Arrange the Technical description in such a way that it will not cover the drawing