Technical information

94 | Chapter 5 Working with Alignments and Parcels
The following illustration shows how a parcel is defined by using the Slide
Bearing command.
Depending on the parcel settings, these commands can define the parcel to
the parcel database, and they can also label the parcel that is calculated.
You cannot use the Parcel Sizing commands to modify a parcel that is already
defined to the parcel database. To change a parcel definition, you must delete
the existing parcel definition and redefine the parcel. For more information
about deleting parcels, see “Managing Parcels” on page 96.
Defining Parcels to the Parcel Database
As with alignments, you must define parcels to the parcel database so that
the individual geometric component points, lines, arcs, or polylines,
become linked as a single object. This parcel data is stored in a database in
the project folder.
When you define parcels to the database, you can label them and perform
map check calculations on them, depending on what you specify in Parcel
Settings.
To define parcels to the parcel database
Steps
Use to locate
1 Draw a parcel using the PLINE command. Drawing Parcels