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Creating parcels from objects

Creating parcels from objects - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating parcels from objects

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- [Instructor] So to create parcels to begin with, what we're going to do is work with existing objects and we're going to convert those objects into parcel segments, put them into a site and then of course, Civil 3D will create those parcels for us. So let's go ahead and open up our first exercise here, ParcelFromObjects. And you'll notice there's actually a statement up here of No. What does it mean? Well we're going to see in a minute why this is not the best way to create parcel objects. In this case, there's two AutoCAD polylines. This one with a closed line here, and this one with a closed line here. So we actually have two lines on top of one another, and we're going to see why that's a bad example in a second. Here we have one polyline, and then a line in the middle that actually separates or demarcates the one polyline into two closed spaces. So we go to our home ribbon, Create Design Panel under Parcel, we're going to choose to Create Parcel from Objects. When we do, it asks…

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