Chapter 13 – AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials – The Essentials and Beyond

this is Eric Chappelle author of autocad
civil3d 2013 essentials and this is the
additional exercise for chapter 13 in
this exercise we're not really given any
specific instructions on what to do
we're just simply told to apply what
you've learned so far in this chapter to
take this alternate parcel layout and
make it look good and professional so we
want to create a professional-looking
legal document that conveys the same
types of information that we've seen in
previous exercises all right so we're
going to be dealing with styles we're
going to be dealing with labels in this
in this particular exercise so I'm going
to start with parcel styles and I'll
start with this a joiner parcel right
here now there's a couple different ways
I can change the style of a parcel I can
select it and go to parcel properties
and change the style here I'm going to
change it to a joiner I can also use the
properties window so I can select one or
more parcels and go to the AutoCAD
properties window and change the style
there here I'll use open space I've also
got to change the right-of-way parcel so
I'll use the same this time I'll use
parcel properties from the right-click
menu and that takes care of everything
but the individual Lots here so these
are a little bit tougher because there
are so many of them I really don't want
to have to sit here and select parcels
for the next two to three solid minutes
so I mean I could do it this way but
it's really not a whole lot of fun
instead I'd like to do a whole bunch of
them at once now in the book it tells
you to use the prospector to do this and
normally that would that would work but
apparently there is a I'm gonna go ahead
and call it a bug in this version of the
software where if I go in and select the
parcels node in prospector I should see
a list of parcels here but I don't I'm
hoping on urtis fixes this quickly and
by the time you watch this video this is
going to work for you perfectly what I
would do if you could just imagine
a list of parcels here they would be
arranged maybe by name or in the order
that they were created what I would do
is scroll over to this column called
style and I would click the style column
heading and it would sort them by style
and all of the ones that have the style
of property which is everything left
that I need to stylize it kind of all
grouped together and then I could go
through and use my shift key and select
all the ones that have the style called
property I could right-click the style
column and hit edit change it to lot and
it wouldn't change all the parcels at
once so that's how you would normally do
this but we can't right now so what's
another way well it just so happens that
there's a command just for that kind of
thing if I click on a parcel to bring up
the contextual ribbon you'll see that
there is a command called mark multiple
parcel properties and I can select that
and has a selection tool similar to what
we use for re numbering parcels where I
can draw lines through all of the
parcels that I want to select I'll hit
enter hit enter again and I've got I
don't know 40 or so parcels select it
now here's the tricky part it only lets
you by default it only lets you edit one
parcel at a time you see it's going
property 8 property 9 property 10 so you
have to know about this special little
button right here which applies whatever
change you've made to all of the parcels
you've selected so I'm going to change
this to lot which only is going to apply
to property 8 what I want to do is apply
it to everything so I'll click this
button here apply the parcel style to
all selected parcels it says are you
sure you want to do this there are 39 of
them yes I'm sure
and I'll click OK and I've just without
using prospector I've changed all of the
parcel styles looks like except this one
too lot so let me take care of that guy
I know that one is a lot as well we may
just have a display order thing going on
there but anyway that's how you can get
around this prospector issue if you need
to hopefully like I said by the time you
watch this video you won't need to deal
with that
the next thing we'll look at speaking of
display order is parcel style display
order so what I'd like to see here
I'd like the adjoin or line to take
precedence over the lot line so what
I'll do is I'll go to the lot layout
site and then to properties actually
it's the parcels part of this and
properties and on the composition tab I
want to put the adjoint on top okay as I
want that to be shown above the lots and
in fact I want the right of way above
lots and I also want open space above
lots so I kind of want everything to
cover up lots and in fact I went right
away to be on top of both of them so a
joiner is on top and then right-of-way
and then open space and then lot and
then whatever else is left over when I
click OK it's going to go through and
change all the Lots and now I can see
the open space which was above the lot
covers up the edge here right-of-way
covers up everything a joiner covers up
the Lots and now I'm getting the right
display I'm getting the right line type
and color and layer displayed whenever I
have overlapping parcel edges like I do
back here or in the front here okay so
that's part of getting our drawing to
look the way it should the next thing
we'll look at is changing the area label
styles the area label styles will be
handled in much the same way that we
handled the parcel styles themselves so
I'll grab these two open space parcels
go into properties and change the area
label style to open space and actually
we don't have open space is the parcel
style I think for this we used maybe
name
here we go proposed description an area
that looks good
and I mean these are your exercises to
kind of do with as you please so you
could actually use whatever style you
want when you do
the right of way I'd rather not have a
label style at all so I don't get to
choose none as an option in the
properties window so I'm gonna have to
go to parcel properties for this so that
I can say object style I'm sorry and the
composition tab I want the area label
style to be none and that'll take that
label away then we have the adjoint and
let's do existing description and area
looking good so far and then we of
course have all the Lots
now again I could if things were working
properly I could do this in prospector
exactly the same way that I just
described you would do it with style but
we don't have that option so I'm gonna
do it with the same command we used
earlier multiple parcel properties so
I'll draw a lines through all of my lot
parcels press enter
and I'll change the area selection label
style - lot number I'm going to apply
that to all of the parcels all 46 of
them yes click okay and just like that
it's all taken care of so it's starting
to look more and more like the
professional drawing that the the
exercise instructions describe the next
thing we'll take care of is some segment
labeling so I'm going to go up to my
parcels up to my annotate tab and say
add labels and I can go ahead and close
down prospector for now and my feature
I'm going to do is a parcel and I want
to do multiple segments because I want
to create as many parcel labels as I can
at once and I use bearing over distance
for my line bearings and Delta over
length and radius for my curves
so I'll click Add and just start
dropping in these labels I'm going to
use clockwise as my direction
one thing that's neat about civil3d
labels is they're smart enough to not
duplicate themselves when you've got
parcel lines that overlap one another so
I can just keep working my way down
until I have all the parcels done I'm
not going to do all of them just so I
don't bore you to death I'm also going
to do this existing parcel as well now
some of the bearings and distances we
have are in fact existing so I'm
probably going to want to come to this
label right here for instance and change
its style so instead of bearing over
distance let's do bearing over distance
existing which is going to give us a
slightly different look to the label and
whatever existing means in my company it
might mean a different layer or a
different color or a different font
whatever happens to be the case but I
want to use the style and the style will
take care of the rest if I've got any
overlapping labels like here this is
looking kind of messy I might want to
pull that out or later on we're gonna
actually put that curved label in a
table this is looking kind of messy here
you know maybe I can pull this over and
and make it look cleaner we've got quite
a few more curved labels that aren't
fitting very nicely on in the drawing
that we have to drag out so I could keep
going and going with adjusting the
appearance of the labels something else
we did in previous exercises is we went
and change the style and for it for this
example
I changed it to just barring and we can
flip it to the outside and then we can
label we can take this label for example
and this label and this label because
this is all the same bearing and we can
change the style to just distance and
then also flip it to the other side so
now we've got one bearing taking care of
several parcels and the distance is on
the inside so we don't have to label
bearing after bearing after bearing
after bearing we can label the bearing
once and have one label take care of
several of them and again I could
continue to go through and edit each
parcel getting that all straightened out
until everything looks just beautiful
something else I thought we were going
to have to do is renumber the parcels
but I can see now that they they are
already nicely numbered but just to show
how you might do that I'm gonna go ahead
and renumber them backwards so I'll
click a parcel and I'm gonna say rename
or renumber rename I'll start the
numbering at 1 and I want to use the
name template in the parcel style click
OK and I'm just going to go backwards
just like this
just for something fun to do we're gonna
renumber these in the reverse order that
they are in the rest of the book alright
now we go from 1 to 46 in the opposite
direction alright so let's look at some
tables now on the annotate tab I can add
a table parcel and add area we want to
choose a style for the table that does
what our purposes are I'm going to say
area only and I'm going to pick
everything that has a lot number style
to it and there's all my lot numbers and
their associated areas as we would
expect many of them are the same and
then for any curves that don't quite fit
on the line I'm going to do a curve
table and I'm gonna go out and actually
pick the labels that I want to place in
the table and I could do them all by
style but I'm actually gonna go through
and visually say you know what these
guys don't fit very well on their curves
this one's looking really bad we've got
a little bit of a problem here there may
be a few that we can leave as is like
this one that one that one's looking
good but this one's not looking so good
and I'll hit enter I'm going to convert
those two tags click OK and place my
curve table over here now I could always
add more labels to this if I wanted to
notice that I can add items and remove
items and replace items but for now this
is the these are the curves that I have
labeled and again I could continue to go
throughout the drawing and get all of
the labels taken care of
I can also renumber the tags probably
don't want to start with 178 probably
want to start with with one but what I
need to do is go into the settings for
the tags and get the get the settings
straightened out
and the way to do that is kind of tricky
what you have to do is go to the modify
tab and bring up parcels and you have to
launch the renumber tag command without
picking a tag first so you launch the
command renumber tags and then s4
settings and now I can go through and
say alright I want these all to be ones
now I can pick a tag and it's going to
renumber it and I can work my way around
the drawing numbering the tags 1 2 3 and
so on ok so I think that takes care of
at least the beginnings of all the
different things that we can do to make
this look like a more professional
drawing we've changed the parcel styles
we've addressed the parcel style display
order we've changed the parcel area
label Styles we've labeled the segment's
the lines bearings distance and curve
data and we've created some tables we've
gone through and renumber the parcels
we've renumber the tags these are all
the different things you have to do once
the parcels are all laid out to turn all
that information into something that
looks good and conveys the the story
that you needed to tell either to the
reviewer or the contractor or whoever
the reader of the drawing might be so
that takes care of the additional
exercise for chapter 13