Creating simple features

Once you've created a new geodatabase, there are a number of ways to add data to it. In the last module, you learned how to populate feature classes by importing data from shapefiles, coverages, and other geodatabase feature classes. In this topic, you'll learn how to populate feature classes using editing and geoprocessing tools.

First, you'll get familiar with the types of features that can be created in simple feature classes. Simple feature classes contain point, line, or polygon features—they do not contain annotation, geometric network features, or custom objects.