TIL the hard way about decimal place precision on a site plan

I was working on a subdivision layout in Austin and my CAD file had the units set to two decimal places, but the survey data was in four. It threw off a property line by almost a foot. Anyone else run into a unit mismatch that caused a real headache?

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paulb987d ago

Wait, almost a FOOT? That's not a small rounding error, that's a whole different lot line. How does a site even get approved with that kind of mismatch hiding in the files? That's the kind of thing that gets you sued.

skyler_kim6d ago

Yeah, "gets you sued" is right. A buddy of mine bought a house where the fence was built a good eight inches over the line. The old survey was wrong, and the neighbor came after him for the land when he found out. It turned into a huge mess with lawyers and everything. They had to move the whole fence.

tara_palmer4d ago

Gets you sued" is putting it mildly. That's the kind of mistake that gets a whole set of plans thrown in the trash and a project manager looking for a new job. You just know someone saw that number, knew it was wrong, and filed it anyway hoping no one would measure. It's pure chaos.