Create a COGO (COordinate GeOmetry) collection of linework in your project that you can, optionally, use to create parcels and compute parcel closure.

Following are the basic steps for this workflow. For more detailed instructions, see Create COGO Collections and Compute Parcels.

Steps:

Commands:

1.

Display the Create COGO dialog, select the Options tab, and do the following:

1. Enter a Collection name for the new COGO collection and click Create.
2. Select a COGO layer for the new COGO collection.
3. Optionally, select Automatically create points at vertices and specify a numbering convention.
4. Select whether Horizontal distances are measured in Grid or Ground.
5. Select whether Curved distances are measured in Arc length, Chord length, or Delta angle.
6. Optionally specify a Z rotation for the COGO collection.
7. Optionally, check the Numeric keypad mode check box to very quickly and efficiently type in data on the COGO tab (see step 2) using the numeric keypad exclusively.
8. When you are done, click the COGO tab.

Create COGO

2.

On the COGO tab, use your keyboard, keypad, or mouse (see the online Help) to do the following to create COGO linework:

1. Use a Start command to create a starting point for the first line in the collection. Options for creating the point are displayed when you click the Start button.
2. Continue defining the linework for the COGO collection using Add Line, Add Arc, and/or Sideshot Mode commands as necessary (click the appropriate button for options).
3. If you intend to create parcels from the COGO linework you have created, click the Map Check tab.

Optionally, you can select existing CAD linework to create boundaries.

3.

On the Map Check tab, do the following to create parcels:

1. Select a Parcel layer for the parcels you will create.
2. Select a parcel Misclosure tolerance distance that, if exceeded, will prevent a parcel from being created.
3. Optionally, check the Skip parcels with two or more misclosures check box if you want to prevent a parcel from being created if it includes multiple misclosures.
4. Optionally, uncheck the Use only node-to-node misclosures check box to ease the parcel-creation rules and allow temporary nodes to be created at line intersections to calculate misclosure and create parcels, instead of requiring that misclosure be calculated based on existing vertex nodes.
5. Optionally, click in the Include field and then select in the Plan View any additional linework you want to include in the parcel computation.
6. Click Create Parcels if you want to delete any existing parcels and create all new parcels in the collection. Or, click Add Parcels if you do not what to delete any existing parcels but instead create new parcels to add to the collection.
7. Optionally, to add labels to the parcels, click the Label Parcels button to display the Label Lines command pane.
8. Click the Map Check Report button to view a report on the parcel creation process