Thank you for clarifying things. Surveyors from different parts of the country and world will use the same terms to actually mean different things, so I just wanted to be as clear as I could to help the best I can.
To manually enter in the direction and distance to set a point with a description, one of the easiest ways would be to use COGO. COGO starts at a point (if no point number is found it allows you to enter in a starting coordinate) then give the direction (bearing or azimuth depending upon how the job was setup at the start) then a distance to solve a new point number, for which you can provide a description. Then the next leg can be entered, etc. Curve entry is also permitted in a similar fashion via COGO.
If you have the MSCAD2005 program installed with our movies, you may find it usefull to watch the movies relating to COGO, via the help file.
Any future work can then be added to the job using COGO, and if there is a difference in reference bearing, there is the ability to apply a bearing correction to each bearing entered, by setting this up in the System Toggles.
I hope this helps,
Glen W. Cameron, C.E.T.
City of North Bay, Ontario