About Surface Editing Operations

Edit surfaces using data edit operations, which are added to a surface definition as edit operations and not to any of the existing surface data components.

You can access the data editing functionality for a surface by right-clicking Edits under a surface Definition in the Prospector tree. If a surface type does not support an edit operation, the operation is not listed. The following table lists the edits that are supported for each surface type:

Edit Operation

TIN Surface

TIN Volume Surface

Grid Surface

Grid Volume Surface

Add points

Yes

Editing operations are not supported

Yes

Editing operations are not supported

Delete points

Yes

Yes

Modify points

Yes

Yes

Move point

Yes

No

Add line

Yes

No

Delete line

Yes

Yes

Swap edge

Yes

 

No

 

Minimize flat areas

Yes

No

Smooth surface

Yes

No

Paste surface

Yes

No

Raise/Lower surface

Yes

Yes

Simplify surface Yes No

Tutorial Exercise: Editing Surface Data