Navigation:  Layer Properties > Buttons

The Layers panel contains the following buttons:

 

Buttons of the Layers panel

 

New Layer

Opens a pop-up menu with the following options:

oDatabase: Opens the New db Layer panel to create a new geodatabase layer

oFile: Opens the Create layer file panel to create a new vector layer

 

New Layer - pop-up menu

 

More details about the relevant commands to this button can be found in the Layers sub-menu topic.

 

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Add Layer

Opens a pop-up menu with the following options:

oDatabase: Opens the Add db Layer panel to add a geodatabase layer to the map view

oFile: Opens the Append layer panel file to add one or more layers to the map view

 

Add Layer - pop-up menu

 

More details about the relevant commands to this button can be found in the Layers sub-menu topic.

 

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Layer operations

Opens a pop-up menu with the following options:

oRemove: Removes selected layers from the list

oMerge: Merges selected layers from the list. The merged layers can be saved into a new vector layer file.

 

Layer operations - pop-up menu

 

 

Only the selected vector layers can be merged into MAP, DGN, DXF and MIF multi feature vector format: more than one feature type i.e. point, line and polygon within one layer

 

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Layer export

Opens a pop-up menu with the following options:

oDatabase: Opens the Save db Layer panel to save (export) the active layer as a geodatabase layer

oFile: Opens the Save as file panel file to export the active layer into another file format or to save it with a different new name.

 

Add Layer - pop-up menu

 

More details about the relevant commands to this button can be found in the Layers sub-menu topic.

 

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Display scale range

Opens the Scale panel. Sets the display scale range of the layers.

 

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Layer properties

Opens different Source paneles by data source type as:

oVector layers, text and tabular files

oRaster layers

oTIN layers

 

to display and edit the properties of the data source.

 

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Layer classification, edit classes

Opens different paneles by data source type as:

oVector layers --> Classes panel. The Classes panel lists all the thematic classes to the active DigiTerra Explorer vector layer as well as the symbology defined for the layer.

oRaster layers --> Raster Options panel

oTIN layers --> DEM Options panel

 

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Labeling

Opens the Labels panel. Labels a vector layer with the contents of the selected attribute field. Sets label properties.