Exercise 5: Creating Figures from Parcels

In this exercise, you will use AutoCAD Civil 3D parcel objects to add figures to a survey database.

In addition to parcel objects, you can also use feature lines, lot lines, and AutoCAD lines and polylines as a source to create figures.

This exercise continues from Exercise 4: Calculating an Azimuth in The Astronomic Direction Calculator.

Create a new survey database

1. Open Survey-4D.dwg, which is located in the tutorials drawings folder.
2. In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, right-click Survey Databases. Click New Local Survey Database.
3. In the New Local Survey Database dialog box, for the name, enter Survey 5. Click OK.

Create survey figures from existing parcels

1. In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, expand the database Survey 5. Right-click the Figures collection. Click Create Figure From Object.
2. In the drawing, click the label for the parcel SINGLE-FAMILY: 101.
3. In the Create Figure From Objects dialog box, specify the following parameters:
   • Name: LOT CORNER
   • Current Figure Prefix Database: Sample
   • Associate Survey Points To Vertices: Yes
4. Click OK.
5. Press Esc to end the command.

   The figure is created and added to the survey database. Information about the figure is displayed in list view.

To continue to the next tutorial, go to Outputting Survey Information.