Hole Cut Operation

Makes a hole inside a polygon feature using a lineString feature

The Hole Operation takes the features from the Hole layer and uses the LineString features from the Using to make a hole inside them. The LineString feature must be contained inside the polygon feature.

The result of the Hole Operation could be stored on a new layer, on an existent layer or on the previously used source layer.

Sample Usage

On this example we are going to do a fill operation with the polygon layer edificios.shp and the lineString layer carre1.shp.


Figure 1. Before operation.

Go to the Spatial Operations View, and select Hole from the Operations list .
The Hole Operation's specific input options will show up.

Now it's time to indicate the operation's inputs, as shown in Figure 2:


Figure 2. Define input and target layers.


Figure 3. Progress dialog.

Shows the newly created Layer (Hole_1) added to the map, with the Features resulting of applying the Hole operation between the Hole layer and the Using layer.


Figure 4. Result Layer.

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