Creating and managing parcels

In this section, we’ll begin to explore and understand how to utilize the parcel tools available to us within Civil 3D to support our residential subdivision design. We’ll begin by creating our overall parcel object that will combine the two existing parcels from our survey.

Using the NCOPY command (type this at the command line), we’ll go ahead and copy our linework showing only the outermost parcel boundary from our Survey Model.dwg external reference into our Site Plan Reference.dwg file, as shown in Figure 9.3:

Figure 9.3 – NCOPY outermost parcel linework

Once this linework has been extracted from our Survey Model.dwg file and placed into our Site Plan Reference.dwg file, we’ll then want to isolate these objects and use the JOIN command (type this at the command line) to create one continuous polyline of the outermost parcel linework.

The next step we’ll want to take is to convert...