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Overview
Edit Mode in Viewer is designed to edit vector elements on Drawings. It offers similar editing capabilities in the following modes:
Edit Mode
Redline Mode
Change Requests Mode
This section described toolbar sections specific to Editing modes. For base toolbar sections please refer to View / Object Select Mode.
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The edit toolbar overview is as follows:
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Multi-selection of more than one spot is possible. All operations done when having more than one spot selected will be applied to all selected spots. |
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In order to activate these functions, please select a background drawing from the Drawings and Layers menu:
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For in depth explanation please refer to Move and Scale/Align background drawing guide.
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This toolbar is active only when Drawing contains an editable Vector drawing, and if a proper Layer is selected in:
Redline mode - when editable (your own or shared) layer is selected
Edit mode - when editable local or global layer is selected.
Change Requests: when active change request is selected . See more in Change Management Workflow
Available drawing Available drawing tools:
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Rectangle |
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Line |
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Polyline |
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Free line |
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To cancel, do one of the following:
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Polygon |
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When shape is ready, add additional vertex points by right click on any of the existing vertices and select Add or Delete point. |
Circle |
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Ellispe |
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Circle Arc |
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Text |
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Icon |
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Icon function is using a split button. An icon / symbol can be selected and set under Icon button by using arrow and dropdown selection form. When the symbol is preset, all consecutive activations of draw function will use the selected icon. Icons can also be dragged and dropped directly from the list onto the drawing. |
Insert Toolbar
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Functions in this toolbar allows inserting area and length values for selected spot.
Select a spot on a drawing and activate desired function:
Insert length
Insert area
Inserted length/area is a new shape in the drawing. It is not connected in any way with the original shape and will not reflect changes in area or length automatically.
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Please note that, inserted texts will be on layer currently selected in Layer Drop-down and not on layer on which selected spot is on. |
Drawings & Layers
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Drawings
Drawing selection in case there are more then one Vector drawings present. In most cases, Layer management is enough and single Vector Drawing is perfectly enough.
For managing Drawing components (add / remove) please refer to Guide: Manual import of raster drawing and Working with Map Data Source
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Layers
Drawings and Layers toolbar also provides overview of available layers and their properties. A list of all visible layers is presented in the dropdown.
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Columns
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 | Scope | Describes scope and owner of the private layer. Possible values include:
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 | Fill/Stroke | Fill and stroke color visualization for layer. This is a default style for all elements on that layer. Shapes might have individual style set that will override the layer style. |
 | Name | Name of the layer |
 | Editable | Indicates if layer is editable for current user Possible values:
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 | Visible | Indicates if layer is visible Possible values:
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 | Active | Indicates if layer is active for selection
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Shape Properties Toolbar
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To change a color of given shape, simply select that shape in edit mode by single click, on the Shape properties toolbar select Color drop down icon and choose desired color from the Color Picker. 
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Notice the "Reset to Layer style" button 
that will revert selected setting. This function is available for every other setting as well.
In the same way a transparency settings of both fill color and stroke like can be changed:
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Line width and radius can be controlled in several ways:
Fixed width setting indicated that the with of a given entity will not change with magnification of the drawing (zoom). It will remain fixed and will always appear the same way on the screen.
Width indicates the with of the line or border of any entity.
Units set to Drawing will inherit Width units from the drawing. You can also select from other units:
Inch
Millimeter
Centimeter
Meter
Corner radius makes corners of rectangle more rounded (please notice that this option works only for single rectangle).
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Context menu in Edit mode
Context menu in Edit mode changes from Object related menu to vector entity menu as well. 
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Available options for selected entity include:
Reset to Layer Style - resets all properties of this entity back to Layer defaults.
Change Layer - allows to move selected spot from it's original layer to another. Edit rights for destination layer are needed.
You can also move reline spots to other redline layers from Redline mode.
You cannot hover move layers from one drawing to another (ex. overlay layer to redline drawing).Delete - deletes this entity from the drawing.
Note: Auto Save function does not influence delete function. Delete is performed immediately regardless of the Auto Save setting. Show links - displays a popup window with information about linked objects. for more information see Object Linking (Relations)
Paste link - if system clipboard contains link to another object it can be linked to this entity by using Paste link function.
Change Order function allows to bring selected entity to front or send it to back but only within spots on same layer.
That means that spots on layers on with higher index will not be affected by Send to Back and will still cover spots on layer with lower index.
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Group / Ungroup entities by using Context Menu
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If a Space with several columns (with negative area marker) are grouped together their area will be reported as one.
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