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Digitizer

The Digitizer is a drawing-assist sidebar that helps you capture facility geometry precisely. It controls what your cursor snaps to and lets you lock the angle and length of segments as you draw or edit a feature's shape.

Prerequisites​

  • You must have an open project

How to open the Digitizer​

  1. With a project open, click the menu icon in the left sidebar header to open the sidebar chooser

  2. Select Digitizer

    Digitizer sidebar with Snap To (Facilities, Measures, GPS Traces) and Constraints (Baseline Angle, Interval Angle, Length Constraint)

Snap To​

The Snap To section controls what the cursor latches onto while you draw. Each target has its own checkbox (all on by default):

  • Facilities — snap to existing facility geometry
  • Measures — snap to markup measurements (distances, areas, buffers)
  • GPS Traces — snap to imported GPS trace geometry

Uncheck a target to place a vertex free of that reference.

Constraints​

The Constraints section locks the angle and length of the segment you're drawing:

  • Baseline Angle — set a reference angle for the segment
  • Interval Angle — constrain turns to a repeating angle increment (available once a baseline angle is set)
  • Length Constraint (ft) — lock the segment to a fixed length

Leave a field blank to leave that property unconstrained.

  • Features — add and manage features on the map
  • Feature shapes — other methods for defining feature geometry
  • Measurements — the Markup sidebar for distances, areas, and buffers