Remove nodes

In Street editing Street editing tools, you can use Remove Nodes Remove Nodes to clean up streets by removing nodes individually or selecting many at once. When removing the nodes, you have the additional options to maintain the street layout and curve, or limit the deletion to only two-segment nodes while preserving the intersections.

You can also delete intersections and maintain the street segments connected to the intersection before deletion.

To remove street nodes , click Street editing and click Remove Nodes in the Tool Options window Tool options or press C+R. You can also click Graph > Remove Nodes in the main menu.

Remove street nodes

Click the Remove Nodes Remove Nodes tool select single node or multiple nodes to remove:

Selected nodes to remove

In this case, the nodes are removed and a segment between the end point node at the top and the intersection node remains:

Remove nodes without Fit to curve option

When you turn on the Fit to Curve toggle button in the tool options, CityEngine maintains the same street alignment and curve before the node or nodes were deleted.

Remove nodes with Fit to curve option

Turn on the Remove joints only option to maintain the end point and intersection nodes in a street. When you select the end point and intersection nodes they are not selected:

Remove nodes with Remove joints only option

The result is the same as the image above:

End point node and intersection node remain

Remove intersection

Click the Remove Nodes Remove tool and select an intersection node to remove it.

Delete intersection

The segments connected to the intersection node are shortened to begin at the boundary of the removed intersection. This leaves the street alignments intact.

Intersection removed

Tool options

The Remove Nodes tool options Tool options include the following:

Tool options Remove Nodes
Fit to curve

Remove nodes while maintaining the street alignment and curve.

Remove joints only

Remove only two-segment nodes and preserve end point and intersection nodes.