Removing an outline from a Default Landmass
I am trying to remove an outline from a default landmass as a practice exercise. I have gone through the Selection Menu exercises to understand how to do this but for some reason I am unable to or not understanding something.
I go to INFO and List to check the two entities (Outline and landmass). I then go to Change Properties, click on the Landmass, right click, Choose Combine, Not. After this it gets a bit confusing. I have tried clicking MORE after that and choosing Fill Style, but cannot find anything to remove it.
I have tried the same process, using the Erase function, but I just cannot seem to be able to remove the outline. Any help would be appreciated.
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Assuming those are two separate entities, and that they are on two separate sheets, you can hide the sheet the outline is on and then delete that sheet at the end of the mapping process.
Alternatively, if those two entities are on different layers you can hide the layer the coastline is on.
With both those methods there is no point in trying to delete the sheet or layer the outline is on before you are done with the map because the layer won't let you delete it if there is anything on it, and both of them would be recreated anyway the next time you used the land drawing tool.
Ok Thank you! I actually thought they were on the same sheet, but now checking, they are on separate sheets, but if I delete one, they both delete, even if the land sheet is hidden. I would like to select the border line without selecting the land mass then delete it. I think that's where the Selection Menu tools are supposed to come in. I have just not managed to get it to work.
I am also wondering if there is a way to draw Default Grassland for example, and then cut holes in it to show patches of the land mass?
If they are on different sheets it should work. If you can still see both when all other sheets are hidden, then they are on the same sheet and you can't do it that way.
Use List in the Info menu on both land and coastline to find out for sure what sheet and layer both of them are on.
On the second question you can add a Color Key sheet effect to the sheet the grassland is on and cut holes in the grassland using polygons of the Knock Out Color (Default magenta) where you want the holes to be. Make sure this effect is top of the list, so move it above any Edge Fade, Inner you probably have on that sheet.
Thank you so much!
Hi Sue
Sorry to be a pest. That colour key worked really nicely but when I click any of the Symbol Bar items like Mountains Or Cities or if I click SAVE then all the colour key sections change colour and become patches of a different colour. Its easy enough to go and change their properties back to Magenta so that they disappear again but then as soon as I click a Symbol Menu item they change colour again.
The UNDO function does not change them back. I have to go and change all their properties again back to Magenta every time.
Do you know what I might be doing wrong? or what I can do to make the colour key more permanent?
In this case they are pink, previously they were brown. I am not sure where they are even getting their colours from exactly.
Thank You
Which color are you assigning them?
Based on your description, it sounds like you may have manually changed the palette for your map, and then assigned them this color. While there is technically nothing wrong with this, the palette in CC3+ can reset to the default map palette unless it has been properly re-attached to the map using Drawing Properties
after any change.
The recommended way to deal with Color Key is to give the entities Color number 6 in the palette, this is one of the default colors that appear in all official palettes, and shouldn't change even if a new palette is loaded or the current one is reset.
I think I understand what you are saying. Thank you again.