{"id":6566,"date":"2021-11-22T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/tool-change-object-geometry\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:11:48","slug":"tool-change-object-geometry","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/definitions\/tool-change-object-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool: Change object geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tool available from the Editing Tools Panel.<\/p>\n<p>Tool description<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Attribute Table of the layer whose geometry you want to change and switch it to edit mode<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4147 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja-1024x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja-1024x223.png 1024w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja-768x167.png 768w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja-1536x335.png 1536w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja.png 1749w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is also possible to switch to edit mode from the Object Card<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4148 \" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_1-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_1-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_1-673x1024.png 673w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_1.png 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">  2. Go to the Attribute Table and select the desired object using the selection tool<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">  3. Click on \u201cChange Object Geometry\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">  4. You are currently in object edit mode \u2013 you can modify both its geometry and attribute values<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">  5. To change its geometry, follow the steps according to its type:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Move the point to a new location:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4154\" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_punktu.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"641\"><\/li>\n<li>Move the line nodes to a new location:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_linie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"641\"><\/li>\n<li>Move the polygon nodes to a new location:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4156 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edycja_poligony.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"641\"><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>6. Click \u2018Save\u2019 to preserve the new geometry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tool available from the Editing Tools Panel. Tool description Open the Attribute Table of the layer whose geometry you want to change and switch it to edit mode It is also possible to switch to edit mode from the Object Card 2. Go to the Attribute Table and select the desired object using the selection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[83],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6566","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/6566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/6566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}