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

Clicking on the Shape/Create new shape/Line free 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 free feature is composed of densely arranged vertices with short straight line segments connecting them. Intermediate vertices are created automatically.

To create a smooth line shape on a vector layer

1. Activate (highlight) the layer in which the free 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 free menu item.
4. Within the Map area move the mouse pointer over the desired location and press the left mouse button - a starting vertex of the line will be added.
5. Holding the left mouse button move the mouse cursor to draw the line. When finished release the left mouse button.
6. [OPTIONAL] Repeat the steps 4 and 5 as many times as needed.
7. When the free line is drawn click on the Shape/Create new shape/Line free 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 free item on the drop-down list.

To create a different shape of a line type, use one of the following features: Line, Line 90°, 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.