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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Polygon to shape |
| Date: |
08/19/2004 12:50:01 AM |
| From: |
Margaret Gooding |
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Do you want to headsup digitize a polygon using another layer as a
template? If so, open ArcCatalog, then navigate to the location you want to
save your shapefile, right click on the folder, select new => shapefile
from the context menu. In the dialog that pops up, select the type of
feature (polygon), the name and specify the projection (you can import from
your other features). This adds an empty shapefile to that folder. You can
add other fields by right clicking on the shapefile and selecting
properties. You can then drag and drop from ArcCatalog into the Table of
Contents of your ArcMap window. Then turn on the editor toolbar and start
editing. Using the drawing tool (looks like a pencil) to create your
polygon. If you want to edge match to existing data, you can set this in
the snapping dialog. You can refine your initial shape by selecting the
selection tool on the editor toolbar, then double clicking on the outline
of the shapefile (make sure only this layer is selectable) and modifying
it. Once you have created your polygon, you can open the attribute table
and edit the fields.
At 08:09 AM 8/18/2004, Anthony Quartararo wrote:
>I cannot find the relevant help file for this, and I am just spinning my
>wheels. I want to draw a polygon in ArcView 8.x to outline an arbitrary
>area, then, convert that polygon to a shapefile, of course, inheriting the
>spatial reference as the other layers. Thanks in advance, and yes, I am
>know this is fairly trivial, but ....
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