Maybe I'm missing out on exactly what you want to do, but if you select the
states you want to group and the choose the menu item Object | Combine it
will create one region from the several selected states.
T
At 01:50 PM 6/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
> Ever get frustrated with a new piece of software that you get so
> confused and all the naming and functions are located in different
> places? What a pain the you know what. I have another question. I
> ma trying to create a regional maintenance area map for the field
> services division of ARINC. The maintence areas are divided into
> regions named Northeast, eastern, central and etc. They are comprised
> of the boundaries of regional states. I have been able to easily
> select out and make a new layer of one of the regions, but I need to
> get rid of the internal state boundaries and leave just the outside
> boundary. I can convert the objects (states) to polylines and select
> and delete the necessary nodes that i do ot need, but I am still left
> with a line that connects the first and last nodes that are left over
> after the deletion of the unwanted nodes.
>
> I know in Arc/Info, its a simple dissovle command and it will get rid
> of the inside lines. Is there a similar command in MI that will do
> the same. I hate to bother you with this question,, but my books on
> MI are absolutely useless for this type of editing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
> Beginner MI User
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