Snipper

Distance (Value) or Distance (Percentage): The amount to snip from the beginning and end of the line can be specified as either a measurement in ground units or a percentage of the line's entire length, starting from the first coordinate.

Any negative value may be used to specify an ending position corresponding to the original line's final vertex. Values larger than the measurement of the original line will be interpreted as the end point.

Each of these parameters may either be entered as a number, or can be taken from the value of a feature attribute by selecting the attribute name from the pull-down list.

If the Measurement Mode is 3D, and the linear feature has Z coordinates, all measurements will be taken as a distance from one vertex to the next in 3D space. Otherwise, only the X and Y coordinates will be considered, and measurements will be planar distances between vertices.

Measure (Relative to Start Point): The values specified in the Starting Location and Ending Location parameters refer to the absolute difference in the measure value of the start point of the original line and the start or end points of the resulting line respectively.

Negative values will be interpreted as the start point of the original line and values larger than the measurement of the original line will be interpreted as the end point, but if both location parameters meet the same one of these conditions, then the entire result will be a remnant.

If the Measure Name field is blank, the default measure values are used. Otherwise, the measure values with the name specified in the Measure Name field are used instead.

Measure (Value): The values specified in the Starting Location and Ending Location parameters refer to the measure values at the start and end points of the resulting line.

Any value less than the input’s starting measure will be interpreted as the start point of the original line and values larger than the input’s ending measure will be interpreted as the end point of the original line, but if both location parameters meet one of these conditions, then the entire result will be a remnant.

If the Measure Name field is blank, the default measure values are used. Otherwise, the measure values with the name specified in the Measure Name field are used instead.

Vertex: The vertices from the original line which are to form the first and last vertices of the resulting line are specified as a numeric index, with "0" being the first vertex of the line.

Negative numbers measure vertices relative to the last point in the line, with the value "-1" used to specify the vertex which is the last vertex of the line's geometry, "-2" the second last vertex, and so on. If the input vertex number is smaller than the negative absolute value of the total number of vertices, then it will be interpreted as the starting vertex of the original line and if it is larger than the total number of vertices, it will be interpreted as the ending vertex, but if both location parameters meet one of these conditions, then the entire result will be a remnant.

Each of these parameters may either be entered as a number, or can be taken from the value of a feature attribute by selecting the attribute name from the pull-down list.