The primary activity of the digitizer tool is to manually select vector features by left-clicking, clicking and dragging or enabling some of the advanced selection options such as Draw a Polygon.
The Digitizer Tool allows you to modify existing vector features, as well as create new vectors. This tool encompasses a wide range of functionality, from modifying the shape and position of area, line, and point features, to editing the attribution and drawing styles of individual vector features. The major activities available with the Digitizer Tool are described below.
Enable the main Digitizer tool by selecting the Digitizer button from one of multiple locations:
- The Selection Toolbar
- The Digitizer Toolset
- Using the Alt + D keyboard shortcut.
Find advanced features of the digitizer tool by selecting relevant data with the digitizer, then right-clicking in the map for a context specific set of operations, or choosing from the available options in the Digitizer Menu.
With the Digitizer tool selected, you also have the ability to select data and then right-click in the Main window for additional options in the context menu, or to choose from the same options in the top level Digitizer Menu. This includes adding additional measured or calculated attributes to the selected features, as well as generating new data layers based on the selected vectors and their geometry or spatial relationship with other features.
Touch Screen Gestures
- Press and Hold to access right-click mouse functionality on a touch screen device.
- Digitizer Toolset
- Selecting Features
- Creating and Editing Features
- Creating New Features
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Advanced Feature Creation Options
- Create Regular Grid of Features
- Flattening Terrain Using Area Features
- Calculate Flattened Site Plan Grid from Selected Area(s)
- Islands
- Subdivide Quadrilateral Area
- Group/ Ungroup Multi-part Features
- Create Area Skeletons
- Create Perpendicular Lines Spaced Along Area and Line Features
- Create Parallel Lines Spaced from Selected Line Feature(s)
- Create Points from Lines/Areas
- Creating a Point Offset from a Selected Point
- Create Points at Area Centroids
- Create Randomly Distributed Points within Selected Area Feature(s)
- Create Points Spaced Along Area and Line Features
- Create Whisker Lines from Points
- Connect Selected Points to Selected Lines (Chainage)
- Editing Existing Features
- Attribute/Style Functions
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Advanced Selection Options
- POLY SELECT
- Invert Selection
- Areas within Area(s)
- Lines within Area(s)
- Lines outside Area(s)
- Points within Area(s)
- Areas connected to Areas
- Lines connected to Area(s)
- Points Near Line(s)
- Intersecting Lines and Areas
- Repair Intersecting Lines
- Areas Below a Size Threshold
- Area Feature(s) Containing Point(s)
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Analysis/Measurement
- Working with Feature Measurements
- Volume Measurement
- Calculate Elevation / Slope Statistics for Selected Features
- Calculate Color Statistics in Selected Area(s)
- Apply Elevations to Selected Features
- Force Selected 3D Lines to Flow Downhill
- Find and Fix Invalid Area Features
- Calculate Lidar Statistics
- Advanced Operations
- Search
- Options
- Snapping Vertically/Horizontally When Drawing
- Snapping to Existing Features When Drawing
- Deleting/Undeleting Features
- Recenter on Measure Location on Selected Line(s)
- Copying Features (Cut/Copy/Paste)
- Un-doing Digitization Operations