Creating a table with COGO

Question

Hello everyone, i wanted to know if it is possible to create a table of line directions automatically witht the COGO function.

I know how to put angles in the attribute table after adding a field, with this methodology, however, i would have to manually input all the angles; my question is is there a way to do it automatically, in bulk, rather than each line at a time.

Thank you for any help.

JeffHouser · Answer

Hello JW,

Not sure if there's enough info in your post regarding the error?  I am not familiar with ast.py.  Upfront in your code, did you "import ast"?  I'm assuming you are. Not sure if you have at this point, but refer to the following for more info on compile(source, filename, mode, flags).

https://python-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/functions/compile.html

~Jeff

jw2109 · Answer

Hello Jeff,

I've been getting python help from a lecturer at my university and he keeps getting a syntax error and he also cannot work out what the problem is this is the issue:

if arcpy.Describe(lineFeatureClass).isCOGOEnabled == False:

arcpy.EnableCOGO_management(lineFeatureClass)

else:

print("Already done")

SyntaxError                               Traceback (most recent call last)

File C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\ast.py, in parse:

Line 50:    return compile(source, filename, mode, flags,

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<string>, line 3)

jw2109 · Answer

Hi Jeff,

Thank you very much for replying.

Although I really appreciate your efforts, i have no idea how i would carry this out, I'm onl;y a university student i've never worked with code, i know where the python window is and thats about it. I will try to work this out anyway (i will probably be unsuccessful). Again, thank you for your efforts.