Modifying the localizer feather

The Localizer Feather geometric effect, along with an appropriate representation rule, allows you to customize the localizer feather while retaining the size, shape, scale, fill pattern, and line weight. You can edit the default size of the generated symbol and stretch it to the length needed for a chart by using the representation editing tools. This eliminates problems such as the dots in the fill becoming exponentially larger and the line weight increasing, as may happen when glyphs from fonts are converted to a representation marker rule, stretched, or skewed. The geometric effect controls the shape of the outer polygons with regard to their angles.

There are four default localizer feather symbols included with theAeronautical Solution in the PLTS_ICAO sample style as representation rules: fill on the top half, fill on the bottom half, fill in the whole feather, and no fill.

Fill options for the localizer feather
步骤:
  1. Start ArcMap.
    提示提示:

    If the ArcMap - Getting Started dialog box appears, you can open a new or existing map document. You can also check the Do not show this dialog box in the future check box and click Open.

  2. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Aeronautical Editing.
  3. Click the Production Start Editing button Production Start Editing on the Aeronautical Editing toolbar.
    注意注意:

    The Manage Features and Create Attributes, Update Attributes, or Metadata Attributes windows automatically appear when you start an edit session using the Production Start Editing tool.

    提示提示:

    If the Create Attributes, Update Attributes, or Metadata Attributes window does not appear when you start an edit session, click the Link Feature Manager To Attributes Window button Show/Hide Attributes on the Manage Features window.

  4. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Representation.
  5. Click the Select Tool button 选择工具 on the Representation toolbar.
  6. Click to select the localizer feather you want to modify.
    Example of a selected localizer feather
  7. Click the Resize button 调整工具 on the Representation toolbar.
  8. Click and drag the localizer feather to resize it.
  9. Right-click the representation and choose Attributes.
    Shortcut menu for a localizer feather

    The Attributes dialog box appears.

  10. Click the representation attributes tab.
    The representation attributes tab
  11. Manually modify the attributes of the representation marker as needed.
    提示提示:

    You can also modify the symbol angle, width, size, and color of each of the representation components in this dialog box.


9/30/2010