Attaching shapes

Attaching combines shapes from the same layer into one record. The shapes appear as grouped in the view pane, but the records for the attached shapes are unified as a record in the Attribute Manager. You can attach adjacent shapes, nonadjacent shapes, and shapes that are contained within other shapes. Attached shapes are referred to as rings.

You can use rings when separate shapes form a single entity, such as a collection of islands forming one county, or when shapes are contained within other shapes, such as an island in a lake.

To attach shapes