In general, when editing a topology, you should retrieve the entire topology. However, if the topology is large, it may impair performance. With large topologies, you can query in just a part of the topology.
To retrieve objects to edit
- Open a drawing, attach the source drawings that contain the topology you wish to edit, and make those source drawings active. Zoom to the extents of the active source drawings.
- In Display Manager, click menu .
- In the Topology Query dialog box, click Load.
- In the Topology Selection dialog box, select the topology to query. Click OK.
- In the Load Topology From Source Drawing dialog box, make sure that both the Topology Objects options are not selected. Click OK.
- In the Topology Query dialog box, select or define a query.
- To load an existing query, click Load Query and select the query.
- To define a new query, click Define Query, and then define a query to retrieve the topology geometry you require.
- Select Draw mode and execute the query.
Now that the objects are in the current drawing, you can edit them.
To edit the objects
- Unload the topology from the source drawings. Load the topology in the current drawing.
- Make any edits to the topology with the editing topology tools.
- Add the changes to the save set.
- Save back the changes to the source drawings. Do not save the current drawing.