How to automate and process a CAD file to create parcels.

[AmirBar-Maor]

The first video is a short video showing how to process a structured CAD file (dwg) to create parcels:

If you survived the first video and want to learn more about the geoprocessing model the following video explains it:

If you want to download the project (ArcGIS Pro 3.0) and tweak the model to fit to your data you can find it in this location.

If you want to learn more about how to georeference a CAD drawing see the Transform CAD Layers in ArcGIS Pro by @TimHodson .

Feel free to comment, criticize and/or kudo.

Amir

[Murad_geo]

Thank you for information

[MennoTerBals]

Thanks for the informative videos! I know a couple of parcel fabric users who might want to use this.
Glad you have your parcel fabric t-shirt back. Must be the best fabric.

[kkoffi_crcjv]

Hello @AmirBar-Maor ,

First I want to think you for this amazing video that I have watched multiple times and tried to adapt your model to my specific needs, but I keep running into obstacles. Specifically, with the Update COGO tool, in your model, it’s applied to the features in the geodatabase. However, when used manually, it’s typically applied at the CAD file level.

I attempted to apply the Update COGO tool directly to the CAD file, but it didn’t work. Following your model, I then tried applying it at the geodatabase level to the copied features from the CAD file. While the feature was exported, the scale factor still failed to apply.

Do you have any insights into what might be causing this issue?

I’ve attached pictures for reference to help illustrate the problem.

[kkoffi_crcjv]

* thank you

[AmirBar-Maor]

@kkoffi_crcjv 

What is the error tooltip that you get when you hover over the "CAD Reduced Fields"?

Could you test if it works when you supply it the previous 'Output Feature Class'?

Can you check that the created feature class is indeed 'COGO Enabled'?

[kkoffi_crcjv]

Hello @AmirBar-Maor 

Thank you for your prompt response. The error I am getting is "Error 002044: this class is not COGO enabled" which is not accurate.
I have included images of the Log, the Error, and the Attribute table of the Feature.
Thanks

[AmirBar-Maor]

@kkoffi_crcjv 

The right thing is of course to open a technical support case... For a feature class to be deemed 'COGO Enabled' all the COGO fields have to exist AND the all have to be 'required'.

Could you please open the attribute table of the feature class that got created and hover over the field name? You should see all COGO fields as 'Required':

Please also check that the feature layer properties show that it is 'COGO Enabled':

If they are not 'required'  that is why the Update COGO tool refuses to process them. 

If it is not COGO Enabled the next step will be to figure out if COGO Enable fails or if they become non COGO Enabled by the Delete field tool.

Please share your findings. 

You can also welcome to DM me and send me your model so we can look closer.

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[kkoffi_crcjv]

Hello @AmirBar-Maor 

Everything looks good on my end.
I  will go a head and send you the model. 

 

Also I am using the latest version 2.1 of the Transform CAD Layers for ArcGIS Pro 3.2 and higher.

Thank you so much

[AmirBar-Maor]

If anyone else is following this thread and encountered that the geoprocessing tool 'Update COGO' does not recognize the feature class as 'COGO Enabled' here is the workaround.

Instead of copying the data from the CAD layers to a new feature class append the CAD features to a COGO-enabled lines feature class. You can use these steps:

1. If you are using the parcel fabric the line feature class is already COGO-Enabled. Else create a line feature class with the correct spatial reference and run the geoprocessing tool 'Enable COGO'
2. Right click on the feature class and Export the feature class as a XML Workspance Document' (schema only). 
   

3. Every time you import a CAD file use the geoprocessing tool 'Import XML Workspace Document' to create a new COGO Enabled line feature class (or an entire feature dataset containing your staging parcel fabric).

4. Use the geoprocessing append to append the CAD features to the COGO-Enabled line feature class.

Steps 1 & 2 are only performed once. Steps 3 & 4 for each CAD file you process.