Layer View

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Layer View is the graphical display of the layers. To access to Layer View Menu left click on a selected feature

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• Feature Info tool -This tool shows feature information. Clicking on one or more features opens the Feature information window where Users can choose between the Table View and the HTML View.

• Vertices in Fence - It opens a new window with the coordinates of all the vertices selected by a fence

• Fence - This function allows Users to zoom to fence (see also Toolbar>fence).

• Zomm to selected items - This function allows Users to zoom to select features (see Toolbar>Select for selecting items).

• Zoom out - Zoom out from a point

• Select features in fence - Select the features touched by a fence (see Toolbar Function>Fence) already drawn

• Cut selected items - Cut the selected items from the layer

• Copy selected items - Copy the selected items from the layer

• Paste Items at Point - Past copied items to the cursor point.

• Copy this coordinate - X and Y coordinates of a point can be copied to clipboard and paste in a TXT document

• View / Edit selected feature - This function opens a new window where vertices of the features geometry are shown in WKT

• Delete Selected Items - Delete the selected items from the layer

• Combine Selected Features - Two o more features can be combined as a group (Multi-Geometry). This can be edited, moved and deleted. See Editing Toolbox to modify a single feature of a group. Feature which are combined in a group lose their non-spatial attributes.

• Explode Selected Features - A combined group of features can be devided ion the singles features (i.e. multi geometries, geometry collections, are broken into single geometries)

• Replicate Selected Items - Duplicate the selected items from the current layer to a new one. This function permits also to duplicate the items inside the same layer, but it is quite difficult to separate in the workbench the duplicated features from the original since they both have the same coordinates.

• Move Along Angle - This function allows to move selected features along an angle. Users can choose the angle and the moving distance.

• Rotate - Features can be rotate in clockwise direction. Users can choose the angle and the central point of the rotation

• Select Layers with Selected Items - This function allows to select the layers containing already selected items.

• Edit Selected Side - The sides of a features geometry can be edited. Users can choose the side and inspect the length and the angle of the sides

• Reverse - Reverse orientation of selected items.

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