Ability to delete more than one Vertex at a time
For the love of everything that is topography, please give us the ability to delete more than one Vertex at at time. Having to right-click every single Vertex is KILLING me. Please tell me there is a better way. Basecamp you just Get Info and select all the points you want removed. Sort of like how you Bulk delete tracks in CalTopo. Thanks!
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I feel your pain. Brian, but there is a way to do it that relieves the stress. With a line click on the line the point that you want to stop at, select transform from the pop-up and select split. This will break the line into two objects. Then you merely delete the segment that you want to get rid of.
With a buffer or a polygon it's similar, but different. First, you need to transform the object into a line either by copying it or converting it. For safety's sake, copy the object into a line and then temporarily hide the original polygon. Changing the color of the line object is helpful so that you know you are working on the correct one. Now, clicking the polygon at the first point and from the pop up select transform and then split. Do the the same at the furthest point. You will now have 2 lines. Click on the middle of the offensive section and select delete from the pop up. Now click on the remaining section and select transform and convert back to a polygon. This will automagically join the shape back together.
It's not as easy as putting the line in edit mode and using a magic lasso tool to select the offending vertices, but it works.
I've done all of that.
I am simply wanting to have it work like Basecamp. Select Get Info, select points and delete. Takes 5 seconds instead of either splitting a track (that created two identical name tracks) and rename, potentially deleting the wrong one, etc. Just a total waste of time.
It would be sort of like how we can use the Bulk Delete function.
I also think that we need something to help clean up lines. I made a thread called "Shortcut". https://help.caltopo.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/32432610000667-Short-Cut-option
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