Project: QGIS

Version: 3.16

Feature: Digitizing and splitting curved features

New functionality was introduced that adds the possibility to switch between linear or circular strings when digitizing or splitting vector layer features.

The user can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+G to switch between linear/circular.

For splitting features, new overloading methods have been added to the API. When splitting, curves are preserved. For this, the curve is segmentized before splitting, and all the split features are "de-segmentized" after splitting.

A toolbar button was added to enable switching between linear/circular:

This feature was funded by Geomni UK

This feature was developed by Lutra Consulting (Vincent Cloarec)