From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D: Designing Residential Projects
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Create parcels: Free Form Create - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D: Designing Residential Projects
Create parcels: Free Form Create
- [Voiceover] The last in our series of lot line creation tools, is the Free Form Create Command. As you might guess, this one's a bit more free form than the others that we've looked at. Let's see how it works. I'm gonna continue working in this oddly shaped cul-de-sac area, and I'll start in much the same way I have with the other commands by launching the Parcel Creation Tools. And, this time I don't have all these parameters visible. I don't need them for the Free Form Create Tool. To launch the tool, I'll click the drop-down, go down to Free Form Create and simply click it. My styles are good, I'll click OK there. And I can get to work. And the way this tool works, is it automatically detects all of the parcel objects as I pass my cursor over them. And the parcel object I'm closest to, it places this little circle marker, and then it extends a proposed lot line, from the circle marker, at a perpendicular angle, across to the first parcel segment that it sees on the other side. So…
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