Facility Sketcher

The Facility Sketcher tool allows you to select a regular feature, and create a corresponding design feature class (DFC) based on the selected feature. When you abandon or remove the corresponding DFC, the feature on which that DFC is based is also abandoned or removed once you commission the design. This tool is useful for abandoning or deleting non-networked features.

The Express Facility Sketcher button is available on the Designer Express toolbar. It works on features that have corresponding DFCs that are configured to be abandonable or removable.

Open an express design.
Click the Express Facility Sketcher button and select features you want. The sketcher opens.

Select Abandon, Remove or Existing, then select the features you want. Click the bottom, which will be Abandon, Remove or Existing. Click Close to cancel.
If you attempt to create a DFC with the same DesignID, SourceID, or overlapping or coincident geometry as an existing DFC, Designer will warn you that this is not possible. It will indicate which existing feature already has a DFC and give you the option of saving only those DFCs that do not have duplicates.

Express creates DFCs based on the features you selected. When you run the commissioner the corresponding features will become abandoned or removed. If you selected Existing, the corresponding feature will now have the same properties and attributes as its corresponding DFC.