Function Description

remove the common part of two or more objects. other parts are merged into an object.

When performing the XOR operation, various situations may occur. The following explains these situations separately.

• If the objects involved in the operation only intersect at points, these face objects are merged into a complex object (as shown in the figure below, generating a complex face object with two sub-objects).
• If the objects involved in the operation only intersect at lines, the adjacent edges between these objects will disappear, merging into a simple object.
• If the objects involved in the operation intersect pairwise at faces and do not overlap, the pairwise intersection parts will be deleted, and then merged into a complex object (as shown in the figure below, generating a complex face object with two sub-objects).
• If all objects involved in the operation intersect at faces, and there is no pairwise intersection part (i.e., common intersection part), the objects involved will merge into a simple face object.
• If the objects involved in the operation overlap each other, all objects involved are deleted.
• If the objects involved in the operation do not intersect with each other, a complex object will be generated (as shown in the figure below, generating a complex face object with two sub-objects).

Function Access

• Edit Data 选项卡 -> Feature Editing 组 -> Face editing -> Face relationship -> Xor

Operation Instructions

1. When the layer is editable, select two or multiple objects.
2. In the Edit Data tab's Face editing drop-down menu, click the Xor button in the Face relationship group to pop up the Xor dialog box.
3. In the dialog box, set the objects to be retained. For an explanation of the property processing dialog after the object XOR operation and the parameters on the dialog, please refer to property processing dialog explanation.
4. Click the OK button to complete the XOR operation on the objects.