Delete parcels

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In this video, we're going to talk about getting rid of parcels or deleting parcels.

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In this file, I've created a couple of extra parcels using segments and polylines.

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So what we're going to walkthrough is, is the couple of different methods for getting rid of these extra parcels that are in this drawing.

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So, as we've discussed in previous videos, selecting the area label that then selects the outer boundary,

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and then trying to erase a parcel, so using E for erase and hitting "Enter", that doesn't work to delete a parcel.

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What you have to do is you actually have to select the outer boundary and then you can erase that.

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If for some reason selecting the outer boundary was going to be detrimental to other parcels you wanted to keep,

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so you can't just erase the entire boundary of the parcel,

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then what you can go ahead and do is you can delete a single segment to kind of remove the closure of that parcel.

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So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to jump into parcels, I'm going to get in the parcel creation tool.

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And in this modify section here, there's an option for delete sub-entity.

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And so the sub-entities are the different segments that create up parcels.

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So I'm going to go ahead and delete the sub-entity.

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I'm going to hover over this single segment here and if I delete that, it's going to change the closure element of this parcel,

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and it's actually going to remove one of these two.

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So now it's basically merged the two.

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Now, if for some reason that parcel was on the outer boundary, there wouldn't be a merge that would happen.

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So, for example, say, this right-of-way parcel that we have here, which is Property 26,

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if we went up here and we removed this segment here, this property actually completely goes away.

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It doesn't merge into anything, it just disappears out of the drawing.

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Now if you didn't want to delete a sub-entity, but you'd rather merge two parcels and to remove one of the parcels out,

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so say we wanted to remove this smaller parcel and merge it in with this larger one, there is a merge command, which is Parcel Union.

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So a parcel union asks you to select the destination parcel.

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So we want this information to get merged into here, so this is our destination parcel.

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And then you want to select the parcels that are going to be merged into it.

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So you select that parcel and hit "Enter".

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And now if I select this, you can see the whole boundary is out here, but it leaves the segment in.

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So then I have to go back and select that segment and erase it out.