Conceptual question about Shapefiles
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Coming from a plain Autocad background in manufacturing and engineering I view every item in model space as something that can be manipulated at will and saved for future use. Having started to use Map 3d in the last year I have been constantly frustrated by not being able to directly manipulate Shapefiles and save the results.
I am now starting to think about Shapefiles as more of an output akin to a plot. If I need to make a change to a plot I go back to the original drawing file, make the changes, and plot again as opposed to getting out some white out and making the correction on the plot itself. In this same vein it seems that instead of attempting to make changes to Shapefiles in Map I need to go back to the underlying data, make the changes there, and regenerate the Shapefile.
Am I on the right track here or am I missing some basic editing capabilities for Shapefiles?