How to make and inner Boundary work.

[phmurphy]

Greetings,
I have a project with many polygons. Some of the polygons are interior to others (this is a vegetation map.) When I set up an interior boundary and try to query a report, it only identifies polygons that are entirely within the boundary and ignores the ones in contact with the boundary. If I use "crossing", it ignores some of the interior polygons and includes the parts of polygons that are outside the boundary. Is there any way to query and have all of the polygons that are in contact with the boundary automatically broken into new polygons (part inside and part outside of the boundary)with the same attributes (other than area and perimeter) as the original. I have been doing this just by sending the boundary polygon to the polygon layer, doing a cleanup, then finding all of the unlabled polygons and giving them the appropriate attributes. My guess there is something easier out there.
Thanks
Patrick

[Anonymous]

Patrick,

so far I understand your needs, you found a quite clever solution.
By default Map offers no feature that would complete this in an easier
way. When you split objects, the object data remains always and only
with the 'main' object (where the start point can be found).
You could, however write a routine to duplicate and link the OD to the
splitted object to make life easier when you need this functionality
frequently.

Marion Pietsch
WW Support & Services
Autodesk GIS Product Support

Patrick wrote:

> Greetings,
> I have a project with many polygons. Some of the polygons are interior
> to others (this is a vegetation map.) When I set up an interior
> boundary and try to query a report, it only identifies polygons that
> are entirely within the boundary and ignores the ones in contact with
> the boundary. If I use "crossing", it ignores some of the interior
> polygons and includes the parts of polygons that are outside the
> boundary. Is there any way to query and have all of the polygons that
> are in contact with the boundary automatically broken into new
> polygons (part inside and part outside of the boundary)with the same
> attributes (other than area and perimeter) as the original. I have
> been doing this just by sending the boundary polygon to the polygon
> layer, doing a cleanup, then finding all of the unlabled polygons and
> giving them the appropriate attributes. My guess there is something
> easier out there.
> Thanks
> Patrick