Thanks for all of the responses.
The surveyor here is actually using Eagle Point (EP) on AutoCAD 2002 (maybe 2005?), and seemingly all survey I've received to-date is both in an arbitrary coordinate system, and out of rotation, as compared to local GIS data, aerials, etc... I keep telling him I'll convert him to a C3D user as well before he knows it.
I'll definitely be visiting labins, etc.
Cheers
Do understand that what he's doing isn't wrong. He's basing his surveys on a bearing along an established boundary/section/right-of-way/etc. line, and in that regard, coordinates don't carry meaning like they do when you are state plane.
Absolutely - I take no issue with the quality of the survey; it's actually quite complete, and even well done.
My only concern, stems from trying to identify a means by which to streamline the entire design process and establish an SOP, or workflow if you will, as that is one of the primary reasons I was brought on. By their not working in State Plane, it cause at minimum some additional setup time at the beginning of a design project (I am not concerned about our survey-specific projects, unless client criteria requires State Plane, etc.), and at most the potential for a flawed project if the wrong base point & rotation are used to correlate the survey into State Plane.
Based on what I've seen thus-far (I just passed my first 30 days here), correlating about client GIS *should* be sufficient for most of our work, to allow for work sharing with 3rd parties, and to be able to utilize aerials, etc. which drop in as State Plane. The data is accurate, I just feel some reasonable apprehension to not *knowing* the data is locked down, and 100% accurate.
Hope that makes (more?) sense.
... Now, off to look into potentially rolling our own Print Management & Accounting application, to save us another +/- $5K in 3rd party fees each year.