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How can I send a coordinate to the active "Create feature" tool

MauricioTerneus

In ArcMap 10.5 I could send points to the editor like so:

IEditor3 editor = ArcMap.Editor as IEditor3;
editor.SendPoint(worldPoint, true);

Is there any way to accomplish the same thing with the ArcGIS Pro SDK?

I see plenty of snippets for creating new edit operations, but I want to pass coordinates to the users active tool.

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MauricioTerneus

Basically trying to get the same functionality as the "Absolute X,Y,Z" feature when sketching (Specify an x,y,z location—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop ).. I want to be able to specify a coordinate and pass it to the active sketch

CharlesMacleod

Mauricio, can you take a look at these samples and see if they are doing what you want to do:

https://github.com/esri/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples/tree/master/Editing/SketchToolDemo - implements a MapTool that shows use of the "OnSketchModifiedAsync" event to retrieve the sketch using GetCurrentSketchAsync. There is also a corresponding set method to alter the geometry of the sketch(which I think is what you are after).

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples/tree/master/Editing/ReplaceSketch shows modifying the sketch by accessing the sketch directly off the MapView itself in a button click (rather than implementing a map tool and using its protected methods as above) - see http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/sdk/api-reference/#topic11944.html and scroll down to the extension methods section.

MauricioTerneus

Hi Charles,

Thanks for the response.

I have been playing around with both GetCurrentSketch and SetCurrentSketch, however there is a few problems.

First, If i am in the place polyline sketch mode and have only placed 1 vertex, the sketch geometry returned by " GetCurrentSketchAsync" returns with no points in the Points array... so there is no way to get the coordinate of the initial point that starts the polyline unless a whole segment is plotted.

Also, not sure what I would do if I want to place points.

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CharlesMacleod

Hi Mauricio, thanks for that, this is a bug. If I create the polyline from scratch (with the builder) with a single point it works (I get a polyline with a PointCount of 1). However, the sketch from the viewer has a point count of 0 after I have digitized the first vertex. We will fix for 2.1.

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