idea Editing existing features with freehand tool in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Editing existing features with freehand tool

RonMak — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:19:40 GMT

It would be helpful to be able to edit / re-position the vertices of an existing feature (eg. contours) by drawing it freehand, instead of only the limited Straight Segment or End Point Arc options.

Re: Editing existing features with freehand tool

ChrisMathers — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:03:37 GMT

If you start editing a feature and click the Reshape Feature tool, you can then use any of the drawing tools to edit the feature. I used the trace tool to edit something this morning.

Re: Editing existing features with freehand tool

RonMak — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:13:23 GMT

Yes but I'm talking about reshaping a feature using a freehand edit, not tracing an existing feature or anything else. I've confirmed with an ESRI rep that I can't do this.

Re: Editing existing features with freehand tool

LaurenFagg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:31:33 GMT

My immediate impulse was "of course you can do that!" But when I opened up Arcmap I realised that you can't.

Odd that ESRI propagates all it's other fancy new features through every possible variation of it's use (whether it's appropriate or not!) But don't put freehand into the drawing toolbar. I suppose the only work-around is have a temporary shapefile that you create a new edge in (with freehand) then trace that to reshape the existing dataset. Clumsy solution though. Idea promoted!

Re: Editing existing features with freehand tool

LeslieNanibush — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:45:12 GMT

it would bre great to use any of those new constuction tools to reshape a polygon. I would love my rectangle back - you could do it in 9.3 - could be a simple fix ;)