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To delete boundaries (page 964)
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To move boundaries (page 964)
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To edit nodes on a boundary (page 965)
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To change the boundary type (page 965)
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To rebalance the polygon object (page 965)
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To edit the fill property for the polygon object (page 966)
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To specify a different color for the polygon fill and outline (page 967)
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To set the default fill pattern for polygons (page 967)
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To split a polygon object (page 969)
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To convert polylines to polygons (page 971)
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To convert a polygon topology to polygons (page 974)
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To create centroids for polygons and closed polylines (page 977)
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To change the default setting for importing polygons (page 978)
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To change the default fill for polygons (page 978)
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To change the display of polygon edges (page 979)
Overview of Polygons
A polygon is an object type with closed boundaries. Polygons store information
about their inner and outer boundaries, and about other polygons nested
within them or grouped with them.
NOTE This functionality is for drawing objects only. For information about
polygonal geospatial feature data, see
Overview of Editing Features (page 701) and
Creating New Polygon and MultiPolygon Features (page 689).
Polygons can represent areas such as city limits, county boundaries, state
borders, buildings, and parcels, as well as more complex objects, such as islands.
Example: A state map could be composed of a single polygon with an outer
boundary representing the state, interior boundaries representing lakes, and
boundaries within those boundaries representing islands. A country map could
be composed of individual polygons representing each state.
The following table defines common terms used to describe the structure of
polygons.
DefinitionTerm
Closed boundaries that make up a polygon. Polygons can have
multiple non-intersecting boundaries, or boundaries nested
within boundaries.
Boundaries
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