Rebuild Boundary Automatically

This command enables you to automatically rebuild a surface’s bounding polygon if the current boundary is not suitable for the task at hand.

When you select this command, the application attempts to recreate the bounding polygon using specific criteria. The first attempt is made at six levels above the coarsest resolution of the surface.

The following criteria is used:

• Fewer than 20 polygons in the boundary

• Fewer than 1500 points per polygon

• No holes

• No polygons with fewer than 3 cells

If the boundary cannot be created according to the above criteria, the application will continue trying until the boundary is created successfully, but with a resolution two levels coarser than each previous attempt.

Related commands:

• Digitize New Polygon Boundary

• Edit Selected Polygon Boundary

• If a new bounding polygon is being generated for a dataset, the original bounding polygon must be deleted.

• Export a Bounding Polygon

Procedure

1. Select the Bounding Polygon layer in the Layers window.

2. Select the Rebuild Boundary Automatically command.

The bounding polygon is recreated.

3. Select the Save command to save the changes.