need project help for penn foster oleson village

[Firligic]

im stuck with the coordinates. i have lines and points all over the place few points near the origin then a point alll the way acroos the screen.

these were the directions. the benchmark is located NE corner of the intersection of SW washingtion st and SW Oleson road. the benchmark coordinates is 1421334.93,783207.62

then first point of survey (poiny of beginning) is 113.66 ft from the benchmark bearing N5degrees 27' 23"W

so this is what i did from the above coordinates is 1421334.93,783207.62 i type LINE > @113.66<N5D27'23"W but nothing happens am i doing something wrong.

then try are other point continuing that line 542.16<N39D16'42"E etc.

[ReMark]

I have access to this drawing and can take a look at it for you later. Unfortunately I am not at my CAD computer.

What are your settings for unit type and angle and what level of precision do you have them set to?

[Jack_O'neill]

If you have dynamic input turned on, (and assuming you haven't changed it) the default format is "relative polar coordinates". You don't have to add the < or the @ unless you've switched to a different format. In your example above, you've used the wrong symbol after the line command too. It should point left (the less than sign). Yours points right and that may be the problem.

--edit--

That "greater than" symbol (the one I said was backwards) shouldn't be there at all. Note to self: make sure caffiene has kicked in before typing stuff others will read

[Firligic]

my instruction to told to set it my UNITS to decimal to 0.00 and my angle is the surveyor thingy. but i up the whole night trying to figure things out and i think i got it. can i upload the picture so you guys can check if im on the right track. i dont want to find out i messed up and have to redo it

also, if u look at my screenies at the intersection there are lines crossing each other how do i delete the unwanted lines. the only way is to use BREAK command??

and i have another question. it ask me to create a TREE block. so what i did was make a circle, used the create block, named it as TREE, and used the pick point for the center of the circle, is that correct?
thank you so much guys. sry for asking so many questions, i want to get this right. and i really want to understand it.
screenie3.jpg.
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[ReMark]

Have you tried the TRIM command instead of BREAK?

It sounds like you made your tree block correctly. Picking the center as the "base point" is a good move. Some users pick off the object or they use 0,0 as the base point which will lead to some strange results when inserting the block later on.

[Firligic]

hi guys new question im at the part where i put more detail to the roads and sidewalks. it ask me to create a 6-feet wide roadway. 1-foot buffer between the right of way and beginning of the sidewalk, and 3f-oot parking strip between the sidewalk and curb. im just a lil bit confused on how to draw it. lets say the above screenie is my base line of the roadway. am i suppose to make the buffer inward or outward from it.? not sure if im explaining my question right.

[Firligic]

Heres the newest update of the project does it look right?

screenie4.jpg

[ReMark]

I doubt very much the assignment asked you to create a 6 foot wide roadway. Think on it for a moment. How do you expect two cars going in opposite directions to fit on a 6 foot wide road?

Isn't this what the text reads?

"All the roadways in the subdivision have sidewalks that are 6 feet wide. there's a 1-foot buffer between the right-of-way and the beginning of the sidewalk, and there's a 3-foot parking strip between the sidewalk and the curb."

[ReMark]

This is how I think it should be drawn. HOWEVER...I'm not a mind reader so I cannot say that whoever came up with this assignment at Penn Foster didn't have something different in mind. I can only relate to you how we did it in the city of New Britain, CT when I worked in the municipal engineering department for eight years both in the field as a member of a survey crew and in the office as a draftsman.

Typically, in our city, right-of-ways are 50 feet wide. The actual paved surface of the road is 30 feet wide. 10 feet on either side of the ROW is reserved for the sidewalk, a grass strip, and the curb. Standard practice is to located the back of the walk 1 foot off of the Right-of-Way line (also called the Streetline). The streetline doubles as the front property line.

Olsen Village ROW.jpg

[ReMark]

I don't like the way the previous image looks so I hope this one is a bit more clear.

Olsen Village ROW_2.jpg