Pasting lines as parcel construction lines

This topic applies to ArcGIS for Desktop Standard and ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced only.

You can copy lines from any external ArcGIS supported source and paste the line work as parcel construction lines. These lines can then be used to build and join parcels to the fabric layer. If there are existing COGO attributes on the line work, these will be copied to the COGO attributes of the parcel construction lines. When copying and pasting lines, you can choose to preserve the original, coordinated location of the lines.

Steps:

To paste lines from an external ArcGIS supported source as parcel construction lines, follow these steps:
1. In an edit session in ArcMap, click the Parcel Editor arrow on the Parcel Editor toolbar and click Plan Directory to open the Plan Directory dialog box.
2. On the Plan Directory dialog box, right-click the plan in which you want to digitize construction lines and click Construction.
The Parcel Details dialog box becomes visible, with the Construction grid active.
Tip:

If you are not working with plans, right-click the system default plan named <map>.

Copy your line work from your external data source:

3. Load your feature class, CAD file, or any other supported vector line source as a layer into ArcMap.
4. In an edit session, select the lines you want to copy, right-click in the map display and click Copy.
5. Right-click in empty space in the Construction grid on the Parcel Details dialog box and click Paste.
6. In the Paste dialog box, choose Apply a line template to set a specific line template on the pasted lines.
Tip:

You can also change the line template of the pasted lines in the Construction grid by clicking the Template field in the construction grid.

7. Choose Warn me if pasted lines have inconsistencies if you would like to see a report of line errors and inconsistencies before the lines are pasted.
Inconsistencies such as lines that have no COGO attributes are reported.
8. Choose Preserve coordinates from source geometry if you want pasted lines to be placed in the same coordinated position from which they were they were copied.
9. Specify a tolerance for Extend and trim lines within. This ensures that complete parcel loops are pasted with no dangles or overshoots.
10. Click ok to paste the lines.

The selected lines are pasted into the map or local data frame. The construction line grid is populated with the existing COGO attributes of the lines that were copied. If there are no COGO attributes on the lines, COGO attributes are computed from the geometry of each pasted line.

Once the line work is pasted, you still have to build parcels from the lines and join the parcels to the fabric layer:
11. Click the Build Parcels drop-down arrow and click Build and keep all current.
12. In the Join Parcel dialog box, choose which join method you want to use and use either the Construction tool , Create Join Link tool or the Trace fabric to create join links tool to add join links.

Tip:

Construction lines that are disconnected are displayed in the construction grid with their from- and to-points highlighted in yellow.

Tip:

Bearings that differ by more than 10 degrees from the line shape bearing are highlighted in yellow. Distances that differ by more than 20 percent of the line shape distance are highlighted in yellow.