Modify Features

Tools are grouped in categories of icon tiles, with a search box and All Tools / Favorites tabs. Clicking a tile opens the tool inside the pane — options, buttons, a back arrow — and arms its map tool on the canvas.

The 30 tools

Divide, Clip, Planarize, Merge, Buffer, Copy Parallel, Construct Polygons, Sequential Numbering and Split Into COGO Lines are the KGA tools of the same names, opened inside the pane.

1. Turn Edit Session On, then press Modify Features on the KGA Editor toolbar.
2. Find a tool by category or by the search box, and click its tile.
3. Select features if the page asks you to. A banner reads Change the selection.; click it to pick features again, and the list below shows what is selected.
4. Set the options and press the tool's button — Move To, say — or draw on the map.
5. Press the back arrow to return to the tile list.

Favorites. Right-click a tile ▸ Add to favorites and the tool gets a button on the KGA Editor toolbar. Drag a favorite to reorder. The list is kept in your QGIS settings, so it is the same in every project.

• Edits go to the edit buffer; nothing is saved until you press Save on the toolbar.
• Move, Rotate and Scale: a plain click selects a feature, a drag anywhere transforms the selection. Move To takes absolute, delta, or direction-and-distance values; a map click only fills them in.
• Edit Vertices lists the vertices of the selected feature in the map CRS and lets you type new X and Y.
• Distances and areas on a layer in degrees are worked in the matching UTM zone.