To delete nodes from an object:
- On the HOME tab, in the Windows group, click Tool Windows, and click Layers from the list, to open the Layers window.
Click the Editable
icon beside the layer name to turn On editing.Click the Selectable
icon beside the layer name to turn On selection.(You can also see map layers in the Explorer window.)
- On the SPATIAL tab, in the Selection group, click Select, and Select. Click on the object in the map.
- On the SPATIAL tab, in the Edit group, click Reshape from the list to display the object nodes. Click on a node to select it.
- Press the Delete key or press Backspace to delete the selected nodes.
When you want to put the nodes on the clipboard and also delete them from the object, on the SPATIAL tab, in the Clipboard group, click Cut.
Note: The tabular data is not copied to the clipboard. When you paste the nodes, the resulting object has an empty tabular row.
If all nodes are deleted, the region or polyline is deleted. If only some nodes are deleted, the region or polyline is redrawn to reflect the deletion(s).
When nodes are deleted from a region, the resulting object is still a region. If you want to turn the region into a polyline, then on the SPATIAL tab, in the Edit group, click Convert to Polylines.