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5 Continue specifying Drawing Cleanup settings.
Quick Reference
MAPCLEAN
Performs drawing cleanup operations
Modify menu Drawing Cleanup
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Drawing Cleanup
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MAPCLEANCommand Line
Drawing CleanupDialog Box
Simplify Objects
When maps are digitized, edges may be defined with more detail than
necessary. Use Simplify Objects to reduce unnecessary complexity in contour
lines, rivers, and coastlines. Simplifying objects, also known as generalizing
or weeding, reduces the number of points on a complex line.
NOTE This functionality is for drawing objects only. There is no equivalent for
geospatial feature data.
Simplify Objects works in two dimensions, ignoring Z-values. For information
about how to add and remove vertices from 3D polylines, see
Weed Polylines
(page 816).
When you use Simplify Objects, you simplify complex polylines by removing
all interior nodes that fall within the specified tolerance width. Polyline
segments falling within the same corridor are generalized into a single polyline.
Branching points, dead ends, and endpoints of polylines are not generalized.
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