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Converting Polylines to Polygons
You can convert all, or a selection of, the closed polylines in an existing
drawing to polygon objects. When you convert a closed polyline, the original
polyline is erased and is replaced with a polygon object.
NOTE This functionality is for drawing objects only. For information about
converting polygonal geospatial feature data to polygons, see
Importing Polygons
(page 429).
When exporting objects to other formats, use polygons to preserve information
about islands, holes, or discontinuous polygons.
Here are some typical situations in which you may want to convert polylines
to polygons.
Converting Polylines to Polygons
This illustration shows a map made of polylines. Every closed polyline is converted to
a polygon.
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