How to draw a site plan in Autocad 2010

[Robert M]

Can somebody please tell me how to go about drawing up a site plan

[iskalipsi]

There are many factors you need to consider in drawing site plans. What is this site plan for? Commercial, Industrial or Residential? You need to know first the city standards (setbacks, driveways, parkings & etc. ).

[ReMark]

What do you have for the base information? Do you have the survey information such as bearing and distance or are you working strictly from coordinates? We need more information if you expect us to assist you.

Will the site plan include contours as well?

[Lazer]

Also a sketch of the site would help, asking how to draw a site plan without any info on what it is you are doing is going to be very difficult.

[Robert M]

I am drawing presently the traditional way u know with T- square,set square etc.. but always hearing about autocad so i went and download the software and then i found a video tutorial of the version i downloaded, so my problem is with drawing up the boundary lines from the surveyor's plan.

[ReMark]

I do residential drawings and I am new to autocad

Robert: Great response but it failed to answer a single question. The more information about this project the better we will be able to help you.

So you want to draw a site plan and put one of your houses on it? What information do you have so far about the site?

[rkent]

I am drawing presently the traditional way u know with T- square,set square etc.. but always hearing about autocad so i went and download the software and then i found a video tutorial of the version i downloaded, so my problem is with drawing up the boundary lines from the surveyor's plan.

Maybe start here=>http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/au...urvey-data.php

[ReMark]

OK! We have a surveyor's plan. That's a start. What information is shown on the site plan besides the property line?
Can you post a jpg of the surveyor's plan?

[Robert M]

Robert: Great response but it failed to answer a single question. The more information about this project the better we will be able to help you.

So you want to draw a site plan and put one of your houses on it? What information do you have so far about the site?

yes i have drawing from lands and surveys department of St.Vincent rite,it have on it a Traverse: Line, Bearing, Distance eg. Line: C-B Bearing:217degrees 22feet Distance: 80.98 when put in these values into autocad i am getting very long line which i cant zoom out two see both ends and the degrees i put in is different to what is on the surveyor's plan

[SLW210]

Format>Units and change angle to surveyor's units. _UNITS on the command line. Regenall to zoom out or Zoom Extents.