Filling holes individually

Available with Production Mapping license.

The Fill Hole tool can be used to fill one, multiple, or coincident interior holes from selected polygon geometry. When removing holes, there may be reasons why some holes should remain in a feature. The Fill Hole tool allows you to remove holes individually.

1. Start ArcMap.
2. Load data in the map if necessary.
3. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Production Editing.
4. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Production Editing Advanced.
5. Click the Production Start Editing button on the Production Editing toolbar.

   Note:

   The Manage Features and Create Attributes, Update Attributes, or Metadata Attributes windows automatically appear when you start an edit session using the Production Start Editing tool.

   Tip:

   If the Create Attributes, Update Attributes, or Metadata Attributes window does not appear when you start an edit session, click the Show/Hide Attributes button on the Manage Features window.

6. Select one polygon feature that has holes in it.
7. Click the Fill Hole button on the Production Editing Advanced toolbar.
8. Click the Fill Hole button on the Production Editing toolbar.
9. Click inside each hole you want to fill in the selected polygon.

   Each hole is filled.