Parcel Creation – Lots & Blocks

I initially wrote this post in March of 2006, but I’m still finding it one of the more popular articles. The images may have changed, but the workflow is essentially the same. Parcel creation in Civil 3D is tricky if your subdivisions require Lots and Blocks (Texas, for example). This assumes duplicate lot numbers inside a subdivision, and Civil 3D isn’t geared to handle duplicates. This condition also wreaks havoc on display order... [Read More...]

Site Parcels

Learning how new software functions isn’t bad; learning to use new software for production in the ‘real’ world, when time and money count, is a different ballgame. By now you know Civil 3D has “Sites.” If you don’t want your objects to interact with each other, i.e. if you don’t want alignments to split Parcels, you put them in a different Site. So a Site is really nothing more than a collection of objects that need to interact with... [Read More...]