The Map Editing group on the Features tab is used to edit various types of geometry on the map. The application provides the following geometric feature editing operations, which can only be performed when the current vector layer is in an editable state.
- Paste: Used to copy the content from the clipboard to an editable vector layer of the same type.
When the current layer is editable, click the Paste button (or use the shortcut Ctrl+V) to save the geometry currently stored on the clipboard to the current layer. The attribute records of the pasted object will also be appended to the end of the attribute table of the dataset being pasted into.
Note:There must be pasteable content on the clipboard.
Copied objects can only be pasted into datasets that support them. The datasets that support pasting for point, line, and region objects are described as follows:
- Point objects can be pasted into point and CAD datasets, or into a layout.
- Line objects can be pasted into point, line, region, CAD datasets, or into a layout. When a line object is pasted into a point dataset, the line object is automatically converted to point objects, meaning the nodes of the line object are directly converted to point objects; when a line object is pasted into a region dataset, non-straight line objects are automatically converted to region objects. If the line object is closed, the line becomes the boundary of the region object; if the line object is not closed, it is connected end-to-end and then converted to a region object.
- Region objects can be pasted into line, region, CAD datasets, or into a layout. When a region object is pasted into a line dataset, the boundary lines of the region object are automatically converted to line objects.
Copied ObjectPasted Dataset TypePoint DatasetLine DatasetRegion DatasetText DatasetCAD DatasetLayoutPoint ObjectSupportedNot SupportedNot SupportedNot SupportedSupportedSupportedLine ObjectSupportedSupportedSupportedNot SupportedSupportedSupportedRegion ObjectNot SupportedSupportedSupportedNot SupportedSupportedSupportedTextNot SupportedNot SupportedNot SupportedSupportedSupportedSupported - Cut: Used to cut the selected geometry and save it to the clipboard.
When the current layer is editable, select one or more geometries (using the Shift key for multiple selection), click the Cut button (or use the shortcut Ctrl+X) to cut the selected geometry from the original dataset and save it to the clipboard.
- Copy: Used to copy the selected geometry and save it to the clipboard.
When the current layer is editable, select one or more geometries (using the Shift key for multiple selection), click the Copy button (or use the shortcut Ctrl+C) to copy the selected geometry and save it to the clipboard.
- Multi-layer Editing: Used to control the editable state of multiple layers in the current map. For more related content, please refer to Enable Layer Editing.
- Undo: Used to undo the last operation.
When the current layer is editable, click the Undo button (or use the shortcut Ctrl+Z) to undo the last operation.
The undo operation is only available after editing operations have been performed on the geometry.
- Redo: Used to redo the previously undone operation.
When the current layer is editable, click the Redo button (or use the shortcut Ctrl+Y) to return to the state before the last undo operation.
The redo button is only available after an undo operation has been performed.
- Delete: Used to delete one or multiple selected objects.
When the current layer is editable, after selecting one or multiple objects, click the delete button to delete the selected objects.
- Style Brush: Used to apply the style of one object to other objects. For more information about the style brush, please refer to Style Brush.
- Attribute Brush: Used to apply some or all editable fields and their values from one object to other objects. For more information about the attribute brush, please refer to Attribute Brush.