Eliminate Button

Eliminate Button: Opens Eliminate Dialog

Select using: Control Panel gives two choices for selecting the polygons to be eliminated:

Thickness Ratio - is expressed as a ratio of the part's area versus area of its minimal bounding square.
Circularity - another way for identifying skinny polygons. For a circle the circularity will be 1. The thinner the polygon is the smaller the circularity will be
Logical Expression - the standard Expression builder issued for selection

Eliminate method Control Panel has two choices for eliminating the selected polygons

Delete - will delete all selected polygons (considered slivers)
Join (area) - will join selected polygons with neighboring polygons that have the largest area
Join (border) - will join selected polygons with neighboring polygons with the longest common border

Select Button - triggers the chosen selection procedure

Eliminate Button - starts the elimination process using the selected elimination method

Discussion:

Both selection methods can produce good results. If for example before cleaning you set an attribute of 1 for each polygon in your theme (e.g. [check] = 1). After cleaning all the overlaps will have check = 0. Then you can use logical expression (e.g. [check] = 0) to select all the overlap polygons created from the clean procedure and eliminate. Very useful expression can be [area] < "nn" where "nn" represents insignificant area.
"Delete" method for elimination is not recommended because it will create gaps between your polygons. The gaps can be cleaned using clean gaps procedure, but still "Join" is the better choice.
In ArcView 3.2 a new request- "SetSliverResolution" was introduced, but it uses only thickness ratio and if used deletes the sliver polygons which leaves gaps in the data.

Example:	After Selection "[ID] = 0"	After Eliminate