Discover the ways to manipulate parcel properties and object styles in Civil 3D to customize your property layouts. This article illustrates how to select, modify, analyze, and create new object styles leading to a well-structured parcel view.
Key Insights
- In Civil 3D, manipulating parcel properties involves selecting the area label, navigating to the modify section in the contextual ribbon bar, and selecting the parcel property button. The parcel properties window contains information like parcel name, description, and an option for name template in parcel style.
- Object styles can be modified using the existing ones in the drawing, copying a current selection, or creating a new object style. The new object style can be customized under the design tab with options like fill pattern, parcel name template, and display settings.
- The priority of object style displays can be controlled in the composition tab under properties. This priority control allows users to specify which properties overlap others, providing greater control over the visual representation of your parcels.
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In this video, we're going to talk about parcel properties and object styles. So to do that, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on our property 5. And from here, I'm going to go ahead and select the area label.
When I select the area label, the contextual ribbon bar comes up for our parcel property 5. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go into my parcel properties. So in the contextual ribbon bar, I'm going to navigate over to the modify section, go to parcel properties, and pick that button. So from here, the parcel properties window shows up.
So first, we're going to talk about the parcel properties. Then we're going to get into the object style. So the object style is right here.
But inside of parcel properties, we have the information tab, which has the name of the parcel, the description of the parcel, our object style, and then an option for if we want to use the name template in parcel style. If you uncheck use name template in parcel style, it unlocks the name box here, and it allows us to change the name. So I could, if I wanted to, get rid of property colon 5 and just have it as property.
Now, if I wanted to go back to the template style, I could just check this box. Silver 3D then converts it back to property colon 5. So moving on from here, we have the composition tab. Inside the composition tab, we have the area selection label style.
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We have the options for what type of area selection or area label style we want to have. We will deal with label styles in the next video. So for now, we're going to go ahead and leave it as parcel name.
Then you have parcel statistics. You have the area and the perimeter. These are not changeable options.
It's just returning data to us. So moving on from there, we have the analysis tab. We have the information based on either an inverse analysis or a map check analysis.
So depending on which radio button you choose, you have options for showing you either the point of beginning and then the segments and a perimeter and area. Or if you do the map check analysis, you'll notice it's northern and easting, line segments, and then perimeter area, and then you have a closure report. So this is almost the same as if we did our map check by typing in map check, and then it uses the segments of our parcel to perform a map check here.
So I'm going to go ahead and leave it as inverse analysis. Then we have the calculation settings for point of beginning. This is the point of beginning that Civil 3D chose for us.
You can go ahead and choose a new point of beginning by clicking on this button here and picking on screen for your point of beginning. And then you have the options for processing segment order counterclockwise. So currently, it's being processed clockwise.
If we check this button here, it will change how the parcel is being processed, and it will process the segment order counterclockwise. I'm going to go ahead and leave this unchecked. And then you have the user-defined properties.
So you have just the general information of your parcel number, your parcel address, or your parcel tax ID. And these are important pieces to know in the event that you want to return this information in your area label style. So moving on from here, we're going to go to the object style.
So object style, we have currently selected as property. We have options for choosing the ones that are already in the drawing. You have the option to copy a current selection or to create a new object style.
I'm going to go ahead and select create new object style. And moving on to the information tab for the parcel style, we have the option for what we're going to call this parcel style. I'm going to go ahead and call this parcel style development site.
And then I'm going to move on to the design tab. So inside the design tab, we have the options for whether or not you want to have a fill pattern inside of your parcel. If you want to observe a fill distance, then you would have a fill distance.
And that would basically say once you get past that distance, you don't have any more fill. I'm going to go ahead and observe a fill distance of five feet. And then you have the options of your parcel name template.
So parcel name, parcel style name, colon, parcel number. That's currently what we're showing, which is the parcel style, which is property, and then the parcel number. So this current parcel style is called development site.
So it will be development site, colon, and then our number is five for this parcel. So then we're going to go ahead and move on to the section tab. If you displayed this parcel in a section, we're not going to deal with sections in this course.
But when you do get to sections for roadways, this is how your parcel would mark itself in that section. So moving on from here, we have the display tab. So you have your options of how it's displayed in plan, model, and section.
We're only dealing in plan right now. So I'm going to go ahead and choose how I'm going to display in plan. I'm going to have my parcel segments show up on my index color too.
And I'm going to go ahead and turn on my parcel area fill. I'm going to have it show up on my 253 color layer. I'm going to go ahead and click okay.
And then I am going to move on to the summary tab. Now if I wanted to, I could start dealing with how I want to handle my partial area fill. So currently I have a user single.
So it's user defined, predefined, custom, or solid fill. So I'm going user defined, and this is currently selected as ANSI 31. I'm going to go ahead and click okay.
You can choose the angle of yours. Currently it's set to zero. Maybe I want to go something like a 45 degree angle.
So I'm going to go ahead and type in 45. Then you can choose the scale. I'm going to go ahead and leave it as a one scale.
Moving on from here, we're going to go to the summary tab. And so you can see the information, the name, the description, who created it, when it was created, when it was modified, who modified it. And then you have your design information, your parcel name template, your boundary pattern fill distance, your observed, whether yes or no for your observed pattern fill distance.
And then I'm going to go ahead and minimize these. I'm going to hit apply. I'm going to hit okay.
And then from here, I've now have the development site object style that I have created is in the object style dropdown for my parcel property five. I'm going to go ahead and hit apply. And what you'll notice here is that my development site five shows up and it overwrites the boundary information for this single parcel here.
Now, if for some reason I didn't want this information to show up over the top of my purple lines here, because I have line segments for adjoining parcels, that is an order issue. So what we're going to go ahead and do is I'm going to click okay. And there's a priority thing here, kind of like when we had our point groups priorities, we also have parcel object style display priorities.
So what we can do here is if for some reason let's say this yellow wasn't on top and I wanted it to display on top, what you have to do is navigate over to the tool space, prospector tab, go to where you have your parcel saved to, which is our development site, go to parcels, right click on parcels and select properties. So inside of properties, you'll see in the composition tab, there's a parcel style display order. So what we have currently being displayed is that development site is being displayed with priority over our property display style.
If for some reason I didn't want development site to display with priority over property, I could bump property up to the top and development site would display with less priority than the property object style. If I went ahead and hit apply and hit okay, anything that overlaps with each other, so being the boundaries on property six, four, 11,10, and nine, these all have priority over the boundaries of development site five. Now, the reason why this purple line goes over the top here is that this segment defines all of these properties along here.
So this purple line goes over the top of our yellow line here. Now, if this had been displayed the way it is now, when we created our development site object style, and I wanted that yellow to come through, all I would have to do is right click on my parcels in my development site, click properties, select development site, promote it so that it displays with priority over the top of property, hit apply, hit okay, and so you tell Civil 3D how you want the priority of the object styles to display in the event that you have something having
A concurrent location. So from here, we're going to go ahead and save our drawing, and then I'll meet you in the next video, and we'll start talking about label styles.
