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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Posted by
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 17, 2013
Tags grading, feature line, parcel segment, parcel, site parcel, site
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
A recent InstantOn Basic customer stumbled upon an "issue" with AutoCAD Civil 2013.
I thought I'd pass it around and give others the warning and the pretty unacceptable workaround (without pulling your hair out) until Autodesk gets around to fixing it or I find out I'm just stupid and missed the obvious.
Hey. It happens.The customer had a moderately sized parcel…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 20, 2012
Tags bugs, parcel, site parcel, toolspace
Happy New Year
Er well sort of...
Help I Think I'm Falling
Some things we all like put off too long. Some things we must put off. Some things we just want to put off.
I'm really not any different than anyone else in these matters I suppose.
I'd like the world to slow down to my pace so I don't have to rebuild my world and completely relearn how I work.But…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 06, 2012
Tags Upgrade, operating system, system, website