topic Re: Snap to same bearing (cutting a polygon) in Data Management Questions

Snap to same bearing (cutting a polygon)

GarlandRowan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:44:20 GMT

All,

In 9.3, if I was trying to split a polygon (or drawing a line, for that matter) on a particular bearing, all I had to do was establish 2 points outside of the polygon, make sure the "perpendicular to sketch" box was checked on the snapping toolbar, and the cursor would snap to, or adopt, the bearing that had been established by the previous two verticies. It would basically guarantee that I maintained that course exactly.

This feels like a very basic question but my searches have come up empty on this subject. Is there any way to do this in 10.0 (ArcInfo license)?

Thanks

Re: Snap to same bearing (cutting a polygon)

MarcinGasior — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:36:20 GMT

I'm not sure it's exactly what you mean, but you can try to use Constrain Perpendicular tool in Feature Construcion toolbar. Look at example:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]13693[/ATTACH]

Re: Snap to same bearing (cutting a polygon)

JohnSobetzer — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:12:52 GMT

What if you set your segment deflection (right click menu) to 0?

Re: Snap to same bearing (cutting a polygon)

GarlandRowan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:57:28 GMT

John, thats exactly what i was looking for.

Thanks for the replies!