About Survey Property Field Types

Use this table to determine the display of the various Property Field types both in the Survey user interface and the display of extended properties that are assigned to Survey points in the drawing.

Property Field Types

Stored in Survey Database As

Survey User-interface Display

DWG Formatting

Angle

Angle in radians

SDB Angle

Angle

Area

Square Units in Meters

SDB Square Distance

Area

Azimuth

Direction in Radians

SDB Direction

Direction

Boolean

Boolean

Boolean

Boolean

Coordinate

Distance in Meters

SDB Distance

Coordinate

Dimension

Distance in Meters

SDB Distance

Dimension

Direction

Direction in Radians

SDB Direction and Angle

Direction

Distance

Distance in Meters

SDB Distance

Distance

Double

Double

Double

Unitless

Elevation

Elevation in Meters

SDB Distance

Elevation

Grade

Double

Double

Grade

Slope

Double

Double

Slope

Integer

Integer

Integer

Unitless

Latitude

Angle in Radians

Signed Angle

Latitude

Longitude

Angle in Radians

Signed Angle

Longitude

Percent

Percent

Percent

Percent

Station

Distance in Meters

SDB Distance

Station

String

String

String

String

Volume

Cubic Meters

Cubic Yards if Foot or Cubic Meters if Meters

Volume