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Vertex Editing

If the Show Area and Line Vertices option is enabled (Shift+V is the keyboard shortcut to toggle this setting), you can also select individual vertices on area and line features. You must select vertices before accessing the Digitizer right-click menu options.

With vertices selected, the Digitizer sub-menu will appear, with options (below) that allow you to work with individual vertices in area and line features appear in the right-click options menu. Selected vertices will be shown on the display with a circle around them.

Edit Vertices of Selected Features:

• Edit Feature Vertices
• Set Position of Selected Vertices
• Reverse Order of Vertices in Selected Area(s)/Line(s)
• Insert New Vertex In Selected Feature(s)
• Force Selected 3D Lines to Flow Downhill
• Insert Vertices and/or Split at Intersections of Selected Features
• SPLIT - Split Selected Area(s) at Selected Vertices
• SIMPLIFY - Simplify (Reduce) Vertices of Selected Line/Area Feature(s)
• SMOOTH - Smooth Selected Line/Area Feature(s)
• MOVE VTX - Move Selected Vertex
• DELETE VTX - Delete Selected Vertices

Edit Vertices of Selected Area Features:

• Converting Areas with Islands to Single Vertex List

Edit Vertices of Selected Mesh Features:

• Reverse the vertex normals of selected meshes
• Reverse the faces of selected meshes (clockwise to CCW or vice-versa)
• Perform Y-up conversion on the selected meshes (y= -z, z=y)
• Perform Z-up conversion on the selected meshes (y=z, z= -y)
• Change mesh handedness (y= -y, z=-z)
• Partition mesh into spatially disconnected islands using its XYZs
• Partition mesh into spatially disconnected islands using its texture coordinates (UVs)

To select vertices, simply left click near a vertex to select the closest, or drag a box to select all vertices within the box. The same behavior modifications occur as described above if the CTRL and/or SHIFT keys are pressed when selecting.

Hold down the 'S' key when left clicking, to only consider vertices from already selected lines or areas.