Latest Contributions by WilliamWillis

Try the proportion tool.  Go to the "Customize" tab, over to "Toolbars" and click on the "Customize" tab on the very bottom of the list.  Select the "Commands" tab and under Advanced Edit Tools there is "Proportion".  Click and drag the tool onto an existing toolbar.  If you have a large number of the same length, you can click on the "Duplicate" button on the right side, its the top button.  Hopefully that helps. ... View more

Frankly, I'd like to have a Snake-PIN like tool for simply numbering subdivision lots.  It's a bit cumbersome and takes a while having to attribute 20 blocks with 20 lots in each block.  For that, just having the ability to do a simple increment of 1 would be good.  I used the Snake-PIN tool all the time in 9.1 or whatever the last version was that supported the tool. ... View more

Thanks for the suggestion Carol! ... View more

I'm glad you got it to work Brittany!  I can imagine your reaction when you had that eureka moment when it worked!  I've been in the same situation as you, being stuck on that term "non-tangent" and struggling to work past that.  But like I said earlier, it doesn't always work out right by just simply doing the length and radius of a tangent curve, but most of the time it seems to work.  Good luck! ... View more

I've had issues with Calculating Geometry in Arc10 as well.  One way that I got it to work correctly was changing the editing method to the old "Task and Target" method instead of using the new (unimpressive and issue riddled) templates method of editing.  To change it back to "Task and Target" go into the Advanced ArcMap Settings that is part of the installation folder.  However, if you're already back into the "Task and Target" then I don't have any suggestions. Good luck! ... View more

Bravo ESRI, and please continue to find ways to annoy me. Haha that's true. Here's another thought, you can add the individual tools from the Feature Construction toolbar onto another existing toolbar that you may have docked.  This way you can still have those tools easily accessible but not have that super annoying toolbar popup.  Then uncheck the box to display the mini toolbar under the General Tab in the Editing Options dialog box like "thales007" originally posted. Also, another pop-up that's annoying is the the little selection chip pop-up.  Please get out of my way! ... View more

Here's a thought, since you have some info on the curve that you can use to draw a tangent curve (length and radius), you could try working backwards throught the described bearings and distances, but that only works if the last described line is a straight line.  If so, I'd suggest starting at the original point of beginning (POB) and then use the back bearing of the last described line as the first line of your traverse.  Does that make sense?  To get the back bearings, just use the opposite direction, such as S 16-11-38 W turns into N 16-11-38 E.  When you get to the last line, which would be the curve, just draw it as a tangent curve and use the length and radius that you know.  If the line doesn't close back to the POB, you could then select the curved line and rotate it until it snaps to the POB. I hope that makes sense and helps you, Bill ... View more