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What is a Civil 3D site and parcel?

What is a Civil 3D site and parcel? - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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What is a Civil 3D site and parcel?

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- [Instructor] So we begin to work with parcels in Civil 3D, again it's good to just pause and get a better grasp of really what are we talking about when we're talking about parcels. Parcels are really another way to describe a property or a spacial area that's been defined by boundaries. And there's the challenge. A parcel is an open space, so in this case, we really have two parcels. The parcel is not the segments. The Earth is split into all these different parcels, all the parcels are shared. So this parcel here is neighbored by a parcel on this side, this side, this side, this side, all four sides of course and all of the segments that make up that parcel are shared with another parcel. So it's not the segments that make up the parcel. The segments simply create an enclosed space. The enclosed space is the parcel. So really a parcel can never be visually shown, unless you hatch it or something like that, which really goes back to how Civil 3D thinks about creating a parcel…

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