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Splitting lines manually

The Split tool Split Tool is used to manually split one line into two at the location you click with the mouse. For example, you can use the Split tool to divide a street centerline into two features when a new intersecting road is constructed. If the two roads cross, you can use intersection snapping to precisely locate the point to split.

  1. Click the Edit tool Edit Tool on the Editor toolbar and click the feature.
  2. Click the Split tool Split Tool on the Editor toolbar.
  3. As you move your pointer over the line, a marker is visible on the line at the place where it will be split. You can use snapping to split the line at an exact location—for example, vertex or at the place where a point falls along the line.
  4. By default, the pointer must be within the snapping tolerance for the split to occur. Hold down CTRL if you need to override this distance.
  5. Click to split the line.

    The line is split into two features. If there is no domain assigned to a field, the attribute values are copied from the original feature to the new feature.

Related Topics

  • Methods for splitting line features
  • Splitting lines at a specified distance or percentage
  • Splitting a line into an equal number of parts
  • Splitting lines at intersections
  • Splitting lines at intersections with Planarize Lines
  • Splitting lines proportionally
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