In the last few Parcel posts we learned about the Site Parcel Feature’s topology engine. We unwrapped this planar and nodal based topology model that underlies how Parcels work. This unique engine powers the design functionality we get out of Site Parcel’s dynamic model in…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 31, 2013
Tags inverse, mapcheck, COGO Editor, Mapcheck Feature, Survey Mapcheck, parcel, site parcel
Why does the Site Parcel’s Feature Line collector have a single Style-based Priority property? The need for the property isn’t really apparent at first glance. It becomes more evident when we begin to understand the depth of the Site Parcel and the dual power of the built-in Site Parcel model.
In the last post, we discovered…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 28, 2013
Tags grading, Label Style, Parcel Area Label, parcel, site parcel
The last Parcel post we met the AutoCAD Civil 3D Site Parcel’s planar nodal topology engine. This is a model somewhat like the surface model we know all too well. The familiar surface TIN eats point data (x,y,z locations) and it’s triangle edges are edited and forced by breakline data (x,y,z pairs).
The Parcel topology model plays by another set of…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 17, 2013
Tags grading, feature line, parcel segment, parcel, site parcel, site
In the previous post we talked about how the related civil engineering disciplines “see” parcels and their data differently - so much for getting a nice brown-paper wrapper and a string on the parcel. Much like junk mail these differences of expectation will continue to show up. These show up in the AutoCAD Civil 3D interface and its functional tools.
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Keep the tool-using thoughts I mentioned…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 14, 2013
Tags alignment, feature line, parcel segment, parcel, grading group
It’s probably been too long since I really posted about AutoCAD Civil 3D Parcels. Looking back I don’t think I ever really posted on the Civil 3D Site Parcel collector and it’s mechanics in much detail here. I decided it was time to do a write up. This will take a number of posts. There is a lot going on the Parcels.
Gimmie Gimmie That Funky Stuff
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 08, 2013
Tags grading, site, parcel, site parcel, subdivision