Unusable Area

The Unusable Area shape is used to designate a tree, building, roof support post, rounded course corner, etc. that makes a part of the course unusable. The Unusable Area shape is very flexible. It can appear as a circle, ellipse, square, rectangle, rounded square, rounded rectangle, or as a more general four-sided polygon or rounded "blob". Furthermore, since no border is drawn around an Unusable Area shape, two or more Unusable Area shapes can be visually combined to designate a very irregularly shaped unusable area.

Unlike most shapes, Unusable Area shapes are created with a click-and-drag mouse operation, instead of just a click. For more information, see Creating Shapes.

You can change the shape of an Unusable Area shape after it has been created, by "bending" it. For more information, see Bending Shapes.

Because the Unusable Area shape is bendable, you need to use the Shift or Ctrl key to rotate an unusable area shape by itself. For more information, see Rotating Shapes.

See also: Creating Shapes, Bending Shapes, Rotating Shapes