With an area feature selected with the Digitizer,
choose this option from the Digitizer toolbar or select from the Digitizer
right-click sub-menu, Advanced Feature Creation. This option can also
be accessed in 3D View from the Advanced Feature Creation sub-menu available
of the Selection Mode right-click
menu.
The Create Line Feature(s) from Selected Area Feature(s) option will add
a new line feature(s) to a new or existing layer of data consisting of
the same vertices of the selected area feature(s), using the Modify
Feature Info dialog.