Deleting / Erasing along a line?
hsv216
Surveyor
Hi, is there a way to erase symbols and other things along a line similar to what you would do in say ms paint where you erase with the mouse?
For example in the below, I initially was not going to put roads between the cities/ towns, but decided I needed them. Rather than redraw the filled in section, is there a way I could delete the forests and underlying terrain but leave the rest of the trees and terrain alone? Not keen to have to try and delete inidividual symbols. If not I may just redo them (won't take long but using this as a learning excercise as well. :)). End goal is to make it look more like the roads to the left or tp right. Mountains will stay the same.
Thanks
Comments
You can use the SYMDELNEAR command to do this.
Great thank you Remy!
Hi Remy,
That worked tremendously well, so thanks for that! :) One more question please, is it possible to also clear the underlying terrain? The whole area was done with the "Terrain Default, Taiga" tool. If not, then I can easily just redraw the Taiga terrain underneath, but just thinking about it I might want to leave the terrain too..... :)
Thank you.
No, not that easily. If you are willing to do it with an effect, you can very easily draw a polygon along the road and use the color key effect to knock out those parts, otherwise you'll need to either redraw or modify the polygons.
Keep in mind that the drawing tools have a trace feature, so it is quite easy to draw a new poly that follows along part of the old one, and then draw the part along the road manually.
Thank you sir! :)