topic Re: Editing/deleting data from shapefiles in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192729#M10941 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are these individual points or a multi-point feature? If multi-point, explode them first. If you have them selected in an edit session, the Delete key should get rid of them, no need to clip. Clipping would require a separate shapefile for the clipping feature.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 May 2014 17:43:32 GMT Zeke 2014-05-05T17:43:32Z Editing/deleting data from shapefiles https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192728#M10940 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have an xyz file of scanned data from an experimental impact crater.&nbsp; I am trying to delete or edit out two small outlying areas of data without going through the xyz file and deleting hundreds of points individually.&nbsp; I have converted the points to a shapefile in Arcmap and have tried to select these areas with the editing tool and "clip" them out of the shapefile.&nbsp; Nothing happens.&nbsp; When I try to select the entire crater minus the two small areas I want to exclude, those two areas are somehow attached to other sections of my crater and are included in the selction.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone out there know how to do this?&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks to any and everyone who has a suggestion!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>K</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 May 2014 16:12:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192728#M10940 KathleenMcBride 2014-05-05T16:12:42Z Re: Editing/deleting data from shapefiles https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192729#M10941 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are these individual points or a multi-point feature? If multi-point, explode them first. If you have them selected in an edit session, the Delete key should get rid of them, no need to clip. Clipping would require a separate shapefile for the clipping feature.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 May 2014 17:43:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192729#M10941 Zeke 2014-05-05T17:43:32Z Re: Editing/deleting data from shapefiles https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192730#M10942 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What exactly do you mean by "explode"? These are points in an xyz format converted to a feature class.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for your reply!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>K</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 May 2014 18:02:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192730#M10942 KathleenMcBride 2014-05-05T18:02:01Z Re: Editing/deleting data from shapefiles https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192731#M10943 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">What exactly do you mean by "explode"? These are points in an xyz format converted to a feature class.<BR />Thanks for your reply!<BR /><BR />K</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>It is a tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar.&nbsp; In an edit session select the multipoint and press the Explode button on the toolbar.&nbsp; You will then have one record for every individual point in the multipoint.&nbsp; After you are done with deleting the out lying points you could use the Editor Merge operation to merge the points you kept back into a multipoint, if you want it that way.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 May 2014 20:02:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192731#M10943 RichardFairhurst 2014-05-05T20:02:55Z Re: Editing/deleting data from shapefiles https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192732#M10944 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Okay, thanks.&nbsp; I'll try that</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>K</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 May 2014 20:20:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/editing-deleting-data-from-shapefiles/m-p/192732#M10944 KathleenMcBride 2014-05-05T20:20:32Z