Cut Commands
What Are Cutters?
Cutters are Landshape commands that let you reduce the footprint of your terrain.
Why Use Cutters?
Cutters let you trim away existing terrain. Cutters are destructive.
Footprint control is fundamental. This warrants a separate command-type index.
Landshape only has has a few commands that can decrease the terrain footprint.
😊 Happy trimming!
List of All Cut Commands
Here are all of Landshape's Cutters, listed by top menu order:
Keep
Preserve terrain inside selection bounds, and erase any terrain outside.
Useful to trim away terrain. Will remove any terrain plots that are not contiguous with the kept plot. Best used at the end of the workflow.
Menu: Extensions > Landshape > Pick > KeepPlot
Create new terrain, or trim existing terrain, by drawing a rectangle.
Useful to quickly make new terrain plots of a rectangular form. Hold Alt to Plot-Quake, and see what you get. Embrace playfulness!
Menu: Extensions > Landshape > Draw > PlotCut
Erase terrain inside selection bounds.
Useful to trim away terrain. Best used at the end of the workflow.
Menu: Extensions > Landshape > Prop > Cut Last edited 2026-01-19