Edit shapes

In the Shapes main menu in ArcGIS CityEngine, you can use the following editing tools that allow you to modify shapes with precision and give you greater control and accuracy in urban modeling workflows:

You can edit shapes using the following tools on the toolbar:

Cleanup Shapes	Clean up shapes to simplify geometry such as faces, vertices, and edges.
Align Shapes to Terrain	Align shapes to terrain.

You can use the following additional edit tools in the Shapes main menu:

Compute First Edges and Street Edges	Calculate first edges and street width attributes of the selected shapes.
Compute Edge Attributes	Compute the orientation and street adjacency attributes for each edge of a shape.
Set First Edge	Set the first edge of a face to the currently selected edge.
Set Street Edges	Mark the selected edges as street edges.
Subdivide Shapes	Compute smaller shapes from selected shapes.
Reverse Normals	Reverse the face normals of the selected shapes.
Separate Faces	Separate individual shapes for every face of a selected shape or multiple shapes.
Combine Shapes	Combine all the faces of the selected shapes into a single shape.
Union Shapes	Perform a Boolean union of all selected shapes.
Subtract Shapes	Perform a Boolean subtraction of the lead selection shape from all other selected shapes.
Offset Shapes	Create an offset shape inside the selected shape or multiple shapes.
Remove Holes	Remove all holes from the selected shapes.
Convert Models to Shapes	Convert CGA models to shapes for manual editing.