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Posted on January 26, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Cutting donuts in QGIS

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How do I cut a polygon in QGIS?

Quote from video: So let us split this polygon. So let me go to the option called edit. And go to the edit. Section now go to the properties now to go to the section called edit geometry. And now go to the split.

How do I delete part of a polygon in QGIS?

4 Answers

  1. Select your layer.
  2. Enabled Editing.
  3. Choose the Vertex Tool (previous known as the ‘node tool’)
  4. Click a point on your polygon.
  5. Use Command-click & drag to select multiple points with the marquee tool. ( might be shift-click on Windows)
  6. Use Delete key to delete the selected points (Fn+Delete on MacBook Pro)


How do I remove gaps in QGIS?

To do this by hand in QGIS, go to Settings|Project Properties… On the General tab at the bottom is Snapping options… Check the layer that you want to snap, set the mode to to vertex and set the tolerance to some value less than the shortest distance between two points that you have.

How do I edit polygons in QGIS?

For editing points, lines and polygons:

  1. The Move Feature button.
  2. The Node tool.
  3. RIGHT click on the layer in the Table of Contents and select Open attribute table to view and edit the information connected to the features.
  4. RIGHT click on the layer in the Table of Contents and select Query to select features in the layer.

How do you cut a polygon in GIS?

Clipping a polygon feature

  1. Click the Edit tool. on the Editor toolbar.
  2. Select the feature you want to use to clip.
  3. Click the Editor menu and click Clip.
  4. Type a buffer value.
  5. Click the type of clip operation: whether to discard or maintain the area that intersections.
  6. Click OK to clip the feature.


How do you cut a polygon?

Procedure

  1. Select both polygons.
  2. On the Editor toolbar, set the ‘target layer’ to the layer containing the polygon to be cut.
  3. Set task to Cut Polygon Feature.
  4. Set the snapping environment to the polygon to be cut.
  5. Trace that polygon or right-click and select Replace Sketch. Finish Sketch on the cut polygon.

 

How do I Delete part of a shapefile in QGIS?

Quote from video: If I'm in editing mode. And selected features sorry you can go into bin. Gone once the day you would want to save your layer or if you press the stop editing.

Is there an erase tool in QGIS?

If you want to erase features, this tool is available in both ArcGIS and QGIS. In ArcGIS, you can find this tool in the Analysis Tools within the Overlay Toolset. The input features are what you want to erase. The erase features define what will be used to erase the input features.
 

How do you split a multi part polygon?

How to split a polygon

  1. Click the Edit tool on the Editor toolbar.
  2. Select the multipart feature you want to separate into individual features.
  3. Click Explode on the Advanced Editing toolbar. The parts of the multipart feature become independent features, with each one being assigned identical attribute values. Regard,

 

How do I cut a shapefile in QGIS?

How to Clip a Shapefile in 3 Steps:

  1. Open Shapefile in QGIS.
  2. Generate a Clip Boundary.
  3. Clip Input Layer.

 

How do you cut a polygon into another polygon?

Select the line or polygon features you want to use to split the existing polygon or polygon features. Only features that overlap the polygon are used in the split.



Note:

  1. Select the polygon.
  2. Click the Cut Polygons tool.
  3. Click Trace.
  4. Click and trace along the existing line or polygon.

How do you use the Cut polygon tool?

Using the Cut Polygons tool

  1. Begin an edit session and click the Edit Placement button .
  2. Click the Cut Polygons button.
  3. Click once to start digitizing the line sketch for cutting the polygon.
  4. Cut completely across the selected polygon feature.
  5. Double-click the end of the segment to finish the line sketch.


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