[Qgis-user] qgis chugiak reshape features tool doesn't work

[umbertofilippo]

Thanks, I'll follow your suggestions.
If that's what's possible now I think I have to live with that.
Still, qgis is a great ope GIS!

regards

     Umberto Minora

Il 20/10/2014 10:49, Luigi Pirelli ha scritto:
> Hi umerto,
>
> I worked on that blocker issue with Arnoud in the last Hackmeeting in
> Essen... we found a solution that has not been merged yet
> (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1609). I post this answer to Jürgen
> Fisher too, to "press" him to merge the pull request.
>
> The problem raise at low level scale due the algorithm to find points
> that intersects polygon and when the reshape line points are too near
> the border.
>
> conseguent to this error, is that the reshape tool remain active and
> it's difficult to exit from reshaping... this was an unexpected
> behaviour that wasn't catched.
>
> Use case is generally archeological user that works with that level of scale.
>
> waiting for the 2.6 release I suggest you to find a workaround, just
> reshape at higher scales and/or setting the reshape line not so near
> the polygon border (if it make sense)
>
> Another workaround is changing the projection to work to higher scale.
>
> regards, Luigi Pirelli
>
> On 20 October 2014 10:25, umbertofilippo <umbertofilippo at tiscali.it> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I’ve been using qgis since a long time.
>> With the new version (2.4) I can’t edit my polygons with the reshape
>> features tool because it rises an “unknown exception”.
>> I know this is a bug (see hub.qgis.org). Anyway, it seems they are trying to
>> fix this problem (on GitHub), but, as a non-programmer user, I cannot figure
>> out if I can actually solve my issue modifying the code myself (according to
>> the gits) so far.
>> Since the reshape tool is a must to have tool in my work, I wonder if
>> someone experienced the same lack and maybe got a hint for me.
>>
>>   Thanks in advance!
>>
>> P.S.: I am really sorry to have posted this message many times by my second
>> (not-registered) mail address (umberto.minora at unimi.it). Please consider
>> this message and not the others, and sorry again...
>>
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