Chapter 5

Parcels

Land development projects often involve the subdivision of large pieces of land into smaller lots. Even if your projects don’t directly involve subdivisions, you’re often required to show the legal boundaries of your site and the adjoining sites.

In previous CAD systems, a few tools were available for parcel management. You could create AutoCAD entities, such as lines and arcs, to represent the lot boundaries and then create a closed polyline to assist in determining the parcel area. You could also create static text labels for area, bearing, and distance. Even if you took advantage of some of the parcel management tools in Land Desktop, the most minor change to the project, such as a road widening or a horizontal alignment adjustment, required days of editing, adjustment, and relabeling.

Civil 3D parcels give you a dynamic way to create, edit, manage, and annotate these legal land divisions. If you edit a parcel segment to make a lot larger, all of the affected labels will update—including areas, bearings, distances, curve information, and table information.

In this chapter, you will learn to:

• Create a boundary parcel from objects
• Create a right-of-way parcel using the right-of-way tool
• Create subdivision lots automatically by layout
• Add multiple parcel-segment labels