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This setting determines the way you work with your data.
Features checked out as geospatial
features
Features checked out as AutoCAD
drawing objects
Allows you to use some common ACAD
editing commands in addition to geospa-
Allows you to use many common ACAD
editing commands
tial feature-specific editing commands (for
example,
MAPFEATURESPLIT (page 1652)
and MAPFEATUREMERGE (page 1651))
Edited features are represented as geospa-
tial geometries (for example, MAPPOLY-
GONS).
Edited features represented as AutoCAD
geometries (for example, closed polylines
are used to represent polygonal features)
Supports multipart (multipolygons, mul-
tilines, and multipoints) geospatial features
and editing, such as the Hawaiian islands.
Most existing custom or third-party editing
applications (LISP, VB or ObjectARX)
should continue to work. Some may re-
quire minor updates.
Preserves and allows you to edit M and Z
values.
Some existing AutoCAD Map 3D editing
commands will continue to work on fea-
tures, for example, rubbersheeting (ADER-
SHEET (page 1648)).
Allows you to use feature styling.Allows you to use feature styling.
Split Prompt Options
Specify how features are created after a split and whether these prompts display
during the split operation.
Feature Geometry
Select Create New to split features into two parts. Select Create Multi-Part
to split features into more than two parts.
Feature ID
Select Generate New Feature ID to create a new unique ID for each feature
that results from the split. Select Use Existing to use the ID of the original
feature for all resulting features.
Do Not Show These Prompts When Executing Split
Select this option to use the settings in this dialog box for all split operations.
When you split a feature, you will see only the prompt for drawing a new
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