Originally Posted by
Tom Beauford
Not available to us Map verticle users, just Vanilla 2009. Heard great things though.
For Arch drawing yours is standard practice, Civil drawing rely almost solely on coordinates requiring a different approach. In many instances strict adherence to State Plane Coordinates are a requirement, but rules and regulations vary by state, county, etc...
Sadly California's D.O.T. like most still uses Microstation. Coordinates are stored outside the drawing in COGO software. There is hope though, Florida's D.O.T. is now accepting AutoCAD Civil based drawings for the first time. The newer versions of Microstation can use viewports somewhat and someday maybe it will be able to produce drawings with survey accurate coordinates, lengths, angles, etc...