Generate Buffered polygons around point, linear or polygonal features.

Buffer

The Buffer function in Spatial Manager Desktop™ allows you to generate, in a new layer, buffered polygons around point features, linear features, or polygon boundaries. Buffer distance can be constant or taken from the value of a table field for each feature. It is possible to merge the generated features in their common areas, and different styles of joins and endings can be chosen.

• Selection: See the section “features selection”.
• Buffer options: You can select the buffer distance (fixed value or field-based value), the distance units (read below), the join and end cap styles, and whether you want to dissolve/merge the generated buffered polygons.
  • About units conversion: If a coordinate system with a defined unit of measurement is assigned to the map, the user can select another unit from the drop-down list to define the entered buffer distance, and the application will perform the conversion between it and the one defined by the coordinate system. If the map does not have a coordinate system assigned to it, or the coordinate system does not have defined units, the user can select from the drop-down lists the unit in which the entered buffer distance is defined and the map units. The application will perform the conversion between the two.