I have a reasonably complex metes and bounds land survey that I'd like to plat in ViaCAD. The bearings are in the standard land surveyor's format such as "N dd mm.mm W" or "S dd mm.mm E". It would be nice if I could enter these bearings directly, rather than converting them to dd.dddd format (the tricky part of manual conversion is making sure the "N - W" and "S - E" directions are correct with respect to the zero degree reference in ViaCAD.

Is there a way to do this in ViaCAD?

Thanks,

Bob