How to reshape the edge of a polygon?
Click the Map Topology button on the Topology toolbar. In the Map Topology dialog box, click the checkbox next to Layer1 (the layer to be edited). Click the Topology Edit tool on the Topology toolbar. Click on the edge of the polygon to be edited (P1), so that the edge appears purple. In the Editor toolbar, click the Edit tool (Arrow).
How to make a polygon to match a feature?
Click the Straight Segment construction method on the Editor toolbar. Click inside the polygon and digitize between the polygon and line. Snap to the line and click it once. Do not finish the sketch.
How to edit a polygon in ArcGIS Desktop?
1 Select the polygon. 2 Set the task to Cut Polygon Features. 3 Click the Sketch tool . 4 Right-click the line and click Replace Sketch. This lets you see the line’s vertices and segments as an edit sketch. 5 Finish the sketch (you can press F2 so you don’t inadvertently add more segments to the sketch when you finish it). The… More
What’s the best way to split a polygon?
If you have a line feature that crosses a polygon, you can use the line to split the polygon, for example, if you want to divide an administrative boundary at a road or river. If you have an ArcEditor or ArcInfo license, you can use the Construct Features command. Select the line feature or features you want to use to split the polygon.
How do you find the nearest edge of a polygon?
If you want to find the nearest edge, you basically want to iterate across all of the line segments the polygon defines, doing a line-segment-to-point distance calculation; this will find your distance. There’s a good implementation of the algorithm in Python on this question, and there’s some good description of the algorithms there.
How to turn off snapping in ArcGIS Pro?
Press and hold the spacebar to temporarily turn off snapping as you create, modify, or measure features. Enable the snap agents you want active when you turn on snapping, for example, to snap to vertices and edges of polygons or to point features when you work with cloud data on a LAS dataset layer.
How do I turn the snapping on or off?
Turning snapping on or off does not change your snap agent settings. On the Edit tab, in the Snapping group, click Snapping. You can also click Snapping on the status bar at the bottom of the active map or scene. Each subsequent click turns snapping on or off.