Change coordinate system in multiple MXDs ArcGIS 9.3 - accessing data frames

DavidHaberkorn

Hi,

I have to loop through some folders which may contain *.mxd files and change their coordinate system. I already found this piece of Python which should do the trick for ArcGIS 10.x (from http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/11684-arcpy-change-data-frame-coordinate-system😞

prjFile = prjPath + "/" + "NAD 1983 UTM Zone 10N.prj"
sr = arcpy.SpatialReference(prjFile)
for DF in MAP.ListDataFrames(MXD):
    DF.spatialReference = sr

However, it looks like there is nothing similar to the arcpy.mapping module in 10 available in 9.3. I need to access the MXD file and then the dataframe(s) it contains, in order to change the coordinate system.

I could not find anything useful so far, although I assume that other people may have similar issues.

My question therefore, is there any (simple) workaround to this using Python (arcgisscripting) in ArcGIS 9.3?


Thanks

JeffreyBarrette

Not that I'm aware of.  Is it possible to run your scripts on a single 10x machine, change the CSs, and do an MXD.saveAs to 9.3?

Jeff