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Use Union and Dissolve

Use Union and Dissolve - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Use Union and Dissolve

- [Voiceover] At times you may want to combine two or more lots so that they behave as one larger lot. This is done using the union command, and as you might guess, the dissolve command breaks that union apart back to its individuals. Let's see how this works. For this example, let's say this existing land is broken into three large parcels and currently they're all represented as individuals, existing lots, one being 5 or so acres, another one being 11, and the third one being 13. We really don't need to show them all separate, we just need to represent that there's a chunk of land there that's, if we add all that up, it comes to about 30 acres. So how can we do that? Well, the answer is the union command. So, if I bring up the parcel creation tools, we'll find a command in there called parcel union. So I'll simply launch the command. Select the destination parcel, which I'm gonna choose the center parcel. And then select the parcels that I want to merge into it. So I'll select this…

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