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Remove Cutback Vertices (Topographic Production Tools)

Summary

Removes unwanted cutbacks from polyline and polygon features.

Cutbacks are high-angle turns that cause features to turn back toward themselves. These angles affect polyline and polygon features and can be caused during an editing session. For example, through a digitizing error, a river feature may have a short segment (less than one meter) that turns back toward itself and back in the original direction again.

Illustration

Remove Cutback Vertices tool illustration

Roads before and after running Remove Cutback Vertices with a 40 degree minimum angle are shown. One cutback remains because it touches another feature.

Usage

Caution:

This tool modifies the input data. See Tools that modify or update the input data for more information and strategies to avoid undesired data changes.

  • If the angle formed by a vertex and its two neighboring points is smaller than the Minimum Angle parameter value, the vertex is a candidate for cutback removal.

  • When the Skip vertices coincident between multiple features parameter is checked, the vertices that have angles smaller than the Minimum Angle parameter value will not be removed from the feature geometry if they touch another feature in the Input Features parameter value.

  • If you performed edits on features in the map prior to running the tool, you can undo the results of the tool. If you haven't performed edits prior to running the tool, you cannot undo the results of the tool.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Input Features

The polyline or polygon feature class from which cutback vertices will be removed. This feature class (or layer) will be modified.

Feature Layer

Minimum Angle

The minimum angle threshold value in degrees. The angle value should be within the range of 0–180. If the angle formed by a vertex and its two neighboring points is smaller than the specified minimum angle, the vertex is a candidate for cutback removal.

Double

Removal Method

(Optional)

Specifies whether cutbacks will be removed sequentially (individually) or all at once.

  • Sequential—Cutbacks will be removed sequentially for a feature. After a cutback is removed, the change in geometry is considered when determining cutbacks to the remaining vertices of a feature. This is the default.

  • All—Cutbacks will be removed for all vertices at once.

String

Skip vertices coincident between multiple features

(Optional)

Specifies whether cutback vertices will be removed when the vertex is snapped to another feature in the same feature class.

  • Checked—Cutback vertices with angles less than the Minimum Angle parameter value will not be removed from the feature geometry if they are snapped to other features.

  • Unchecked—Cutback vertices with angles less than the Minimum Angle parameter value will be removed without considering whether they are snapped to other features. This is the default.

Boolean

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Updated Input Features

The polygon or polyline features with cutbacks removed.

Feature Layer

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: No
  • Standard: No
  • Advanced: Requires Topographic Mapping or Aviation Airports or Aviation Charting or Maritime or Bathymetry