Latest Contributions by RyanKelso

When I create new parcels in my parcel fabric, I usually just click the New Parcel button on the Parcel Editor toolbar.  From there I can change the plan or template if I need to.  The problem is, using this method, the Planarize Lines, Breakline, and Create Parallel Offset tools aren't available.  These tools are extremely useful when creating a new parcel!! The other way to create a new parcel is to open the Plan Directory, right-click a plan, and click Construction.  Now this method allows me to use Planarize, Breakline, and Create Parallel Offset, hooray.  But there are a new set of problems with this method.  I can't set the properties of the parcel before it gets built, can't view the misclose or any other closure information, the Parallel Line and Centerline Offset tools become unavailable. Is it supposed to work this way or am I experiencing some unusual behavior with the tools? If this is working as intended... yikes... I'd like to hear an explanation that might help my understanding of using these tools.  The inconsistencies between New Parcel and New Construction are both confusing and frustrating. ... View more

I'm using parcel fabric (10.1) and I've got a parcel with very poor accuracy that has a natural boundary (river).  I'd like to delete it and construct a new parcel to replace it.  The problem with this is, the survey has a basis of bearing which you can't apply when building a new parcel.  So if I enter the lines off the survey then digitize the river boundary off an ortho as a line string, the river boundary gets improperly rotated when I rotate the parcel during the join process.  This is obviously not the right way to do this, what would be a better way? ... View more

I�??m having trouble coming up with a good workflow for editing the boundaries between existing Right of Way and Tax Parcels in a parcel fabric (v10.1).  I'd love to get any ideas from experienced parcel fabric users or hear how others might do this.  Here are some things that I think are contributing to my problem and some specific issues I'm running into: Our countywide parcel and R/W data is of poor quality but is the only reasonable option for creating our parcel fabric. R/W polygons are, for the most part, only split at township lines.  Thus, many of them are large �??spider web�?� polygons with multiple donut hole areas which can make them difficult to work with.  More on that after the next two points... I�??m trying to take a day-forward approach to improving parcel accuracy by completely re-creating parcels using surveyed information, when available, before completing parcel splits, BLA�??s, etc.  This often creates an obvious mismatch between the re-created parcel�??s road frontage lines and the existing R/W lines.  Especially when curves are involved, as they often are with R/W, I�??m not sure what approach to take to edit the mismatched R/W lines so they align with the parcel lines exactly. I�??ve tried to fix small portions of R/W by using Construct From Parent, marking some lines unbuildable and constructing more accurate lines, or by unjoining then deleting and constructing new linework.  By only trying to fix a small portion of a large R/W, I�??m trying to mix accurate linework into inaccurate linework and it never seems to work very well.  Things don�??t line up very well or get distorted. If I use Construct From Parent on any of these �??spider web�?� R/W polygons that have the donut hole areas, when I Build Parcels it creates R/W island polygons in every donut hole area.  This leads to some annoying clean-up work to delete all of the island polygons and the potential to have erroneous parcels if I fail to catch all of them.  Is there any way to prevent this, besides the obvious route of splitting the R/W polygons so there are no longer any donut holes (a big task for a 2500 sq mi county)? If I unjoin a R/W that spans a large area, edit some lines, then join it back, I�??ve got hundreds of join links to create.  Auto Join doesn�??t always seem to work very well, but I don�??t know if I�??m quite using it right.  Any thoughts on this approach? If this doesn't make sense I can show a simple example.  Thanks for any help! ... View more