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ET Polygon

4032001ETPolygon.jpg (18783 bytes) ET Polygon dialog is used for all the global(applied to the whole theme) functions.

Edit Theme control panel shows the View of the currently edited theme, the value of the Fuzzy Tolerance and contains three buttons:

  • Current Theme Button - Sets the theme to be edited. The label of this Button shows the name of current theme
  • Fuzzy Tolerance Button - Although  not as important as when editing Polyline theme this tolerance is used here as well. See ET Polyline for adjusting Fuzzy Tolerance
  • Minimize/Maximize button is provided to allow the user to free some screen space when the global functions are not in use.

Start Editing Button - toggles editing the Current Theme

Save Button - Saves the edits

Save As Button - Saves the Current Theme as new theme. The new theme becomes Current

Show Edit Tools Button - toggles Polygon Edit Tools Dialog

Split with Polygon - User selects a split theme. The selected features of the split theme are used to split the features of the current edit theme. The attributes are updated according user defined attribute split rules

COGO - initiates a COGO session. If current theme is editable the COGO polygon will be added to the theme else a graphic shape will be drawn. See ET Cogo for details.

Create Label Points - creates a Point theme. Each polygon from the Current theme is represented by one an only one point situated spatially inside the polygon. All the attributes from the current theme are transferred to the label point theme

Attributes from points - Transfer attributes from a point theme to the current theme. If there are more than one point inside certain polygon no attributes are transferred.