Deleting a geometry – DeLorme 6 User Manual

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on the toolbar.

• To undo your last action, click the Undo button

on the toolbar. To redo

your last action, click the Redo button

.

• To save all of the changes you make to a layer, click the Manual Commit

Mode tool

. If you do not want to be prompted to save your changes each

time you switch the Active Layer or when you work outside of the tab, click

the down arrow next to the commit changes tool and select the Automatic

Commit Mode tool

to automatically commit your changes.

• The rotate tool is not available for topological line layers.

To Rotate a Geometry
Use the following steps to rotate a geometry.

1. From the Active Layer drop-down list on the toolbar, select the layer you

want to edit.

2. Click the Rotate tool

on the toolbar.

3. Click the geometry on the map that you want to rotate.
4. Position your cursor over one of the green circles and drag the object until it

has reached the new position.

Note Geometries are rotated based on the geographic center point of the
object, which may produce confusing results.

Deleting a Geometry

This Help topic describes features that are available in XMap
GIS Editor and XMap GIS Enterprise.

Use the Edit tool

on the toolbar to delete geometries on the map.

Notes

• When you click the Edit Points tool

on the toolbar, the default map

mode, which provides several right-click features when you click the map, is
disabled on the map area (primary, secondary, or both) where the layer is

displayed. To return to the default map mode, click the Navigation tool

on the toolbar.

• To undo your last action, click the Undo button

on the toolbar. To redo

your last action, click the Redo button

.

• To save all of the changes you make to a layer, click the Manual Commit

Mode tool

. If you do not want to be prompted to save your changes each

time you switch the Active Layer or when you work outside of the tab, click
the down arrow next to the commit changes tool and select the Automatic

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