Hole Cutter¶

In this section we will cover how to create a hole in a polygon.

• Open the New Tasmania map and zoom to lake shown below.

  Note

  Additional editing tools supplied by the community are available.

  

• Open the Editing drawer of the Palette to show all the edit geometry tools. Select the Hole Cutter tool from the tool palette.

  Note

  You can use the keyboard short-cut ‘e’ to cycle between the edit tools.

  

• Use the hole cutter to draw a polygon within the lake.

  

• Press Enter, or click on the first vertex, to create the island.

  Note

  You can press Esc to cancel your edit.

• Press the Commit button in the toolbar.