Documentation | Help File | UI | 2D Mode | Menu | Shape | New shape | Line 90°

Clicking on the Shape/Create new shape/Line 90° menu item activates one of the special editing features used to create a shape of the line type on a vector layer. A line shape created with the Line 90° feature is composed of two or more sequentially numbered vertices with perpendicular straight line segments connecting them. Intermediate vertices are created manually.

To create a line shape with perpendicular segments on a vector layer

1. Activate (highlight) the layer in which the broken line is to be created. Do this by clicking on its name in the Legend.
2. Use the Zoom mode, Zoom extended mode and Drag mode to adjust the extent visible on the Map area to cover the area where you would like to create the line.
3. Click on the Shape/Create new shape/Line 90° menu item.
4. Within the Map area move the mouse pointer over the desired location and click - a starting vertex of the line will be added.
5. Move the mouse pointer in any direction and click to create the first line segment.
6. To add an intermediate vertex along with a line segment move the mouse pointer perpendicularly to the last segment and click. [OPTIONAL] Repeat this step as many times as needed.
7. When the broken line is drawn click on the Shape/Create new shape/Line 90° menu item to confirm.

• The icon on the Standard toolbar; if not visible click on the rightmost icon on the same toolbar and then on the Line 90° item on the drop-down list.

* To create a different shape of a line type, use one of the following features: Line, Line free, Closed line, Closed line 90°, Rectangle [line], Rectangle rotated [line], Circle [line], Circle 3point base [line].

• To edit an existing shape, use the Edit shape feature.
• To remove a shape from a vector layer, use the Delete shape feature.

• If the edited layer is stored in the ArcView Shape File (SHP) format of the type different than line then this feature will be inactive.