Chapter 12 – AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials – The Essentials and Beyond

hello my name is Eric Chappell author of
autocad civil3d 2013 essentials and this
is the additional exercise for Chapter
12 so for this exercise we are asked to
do a complete alternate parcel layout
for this project and that may sound like
a really big deal like that's going to
take us hours to do but as you're about
to see because of the commands in
civil3d and how powerful they are for
creating parcels this is actually going
to be pretty quick and painless I'm
going to start by using the create
parcel from objects command to take the
geometry that we have and turn it into
parcel geometry so I'll launch the
command select the the types of things
that we used for boundaries in the
previous examples we've got some backlot
lines in red we've got some existing
boundaries in purple and then we've got
some right-of-way lines in the black
dashed fashion here and I think that
takes care of just about everything so
that's going to take our our big piece
of property and break it up into several
large pieces and just to keep things
kind of clear I know we haven't talked
about styles yet we're going to do that
in the next chapter I'm going to use an
area label style called lot number
because it's really small and it doesn't
take up a lot of space ok and you can
see what I mean there there's just a
simple number inside of an ellipse so
we've taken that large parcel and we've
chopped it up into some larger pieces so
there's there's a piece there's a piece
there's a piece the right of way happens
to be a piece as well that's piece
number 51 in this case but we've got
some larger parcels that we can now
subdivide according to the design
parameters that we have and that's where
things get really fun because we can go
up here to the parcel command and say
parcel creation tools and you know I'm
going to go ahead and accept the
defaults for the minimum area and those
sorts of things and just jump right into
slide line create so I'll start once
again I'm going to use
a lot number area label style because it
looks nice and clean I'll start with
this parcel right here so we've got this
big open kind of runway where we want to
put all these Lots in and we know how
large we want the Lots to be we know how
much frontage we want them to have and
all these other parameters and what this
command is going to do is fill out that
area with with the parcels that we want
so I'm going to subdivide that large
parcel I'm going to indicate where the
frontage starts and ends and that's
going to be from here around to this
location so pretty much the entire
frontage of that parcel I'll hit enter
it's going to think about all of the all
the parameters and if I'm happy with the
layout I can hit enter or I could go in
here and change a number if I choose I'm
going to go ahead and hit enter and just
like that we've subdivided that part of
it now we'll do this parcel indicate
where the frontage is for that one and
bring it the whole way around kind of to
where we stopped the last one we'll hit
enter take a look at the preview and
maybe just for fun this time we do want
to make a change instead of
redistributing remainder we want to
create a parcel from the remainder so
it's going to reconfigure those parcels
slightly and give us a little bit of
left over at the end I'll hit enter to
accept that and enter again to exit the
command and just like that we have done
a completely different alternate layout
of our parcels so that's how easy it is
with commands like slide line create and
create parcels from objects to to lay
out a full projects worth of parcels
that takes care of the additional
exercise for chapter 12