idea Pro: Auto Labeling Area and border Length during editing a polygon in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Pro: Auto Labeling Area and border Length during editing a polygon

IsaacMedel — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:10:15 GMT

In many cases is quite useful to obtain the border length and Area during polygon editing in real time.

I attached a screenshot to illustrate the result.

Regards

Live total length measurement of polyline when editing

DanielMurillo — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:35:30 GMT

I would like to see the option to have a little window showing the total lenght of polyline that I am drawing and that I can know when to stop, when it shows , for example, that I have drawn 300 meters of total segments and that I will need to stop at 300 meters.

It's a functionality that was available in ArcMap: (see attached)

Thank you,

-Daniel.

Re: Live total length measurement of polyline when editing

PatriciaLeidner — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:50:33 GMT

The current segment Length and Direction information is also important.

Re: Live total length measurement of polyline when editing

sgambrel_Bouldercounty — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:55:53 GMT

This would be very helpful within the Traverse tools as well. Very often legal descriptions read i.e. "Thence following the centerline of the stream 1000 ft". Right now we have no way to tell how far we've gone as we trace the stream.

Re: Pro: Auto Labeling Area and border Length during editing a polygon - Status changed to: Under Consideration

Scott_Harris — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:36:42 GMT

Dynamic Area Display While Creating Rectangles

KaylaKeller — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:48:32 GMT

In ArcMap there was an incredibly useful display in the lower left of the window that showed the area, length, width, and direction of a rectangle while it was being drawn via "Create Features" in the Editor Toolbar. This display no longer exists in ArcPro and we'd like it back. My team creates Derivative products from Lidar and Imagery that often have minimum size thresholds, and this dynamic display was so useful for us while capturing. It allowed on the fly decision making as to whether a feature was large enough to capture.

It doesn't translate well in a screenshot, but here is what it looks like when I've done the first two clicks to create the rectangle but before the third click to finish it. The display at the bottom tells me I can skip this building as it does not meet my minimum square foot threshold.

Re: Dynamic Area Display While Creating Rectangles

AustinHespe — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:16:34 GMT

That would be so useful!

Re: Pro: Auto Labeling Area and border Length during editing a polygon

ipeebles — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:47:16 GMT

Please introduce this functionality. There should be a way to see units update as a graphic is drawn. ArcMap did have this functionality.

Re: Live total length measurement of polyline when editing

MizukiKayano2 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:59:36 GMT

I can see this being beneficial for Traverse tool as well. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-parcel-fabric-ideas/calculated-area-should-account-for-linestring/idi-p/1663012

Show total line length during editing/digitalizing

TorbjørnDalløkken2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:23:10 GMT

While creating / digitalizing a new polyline, it would be helpful to see the total length of the line. Using "constraints" it's possible see the length of the segment, but not the total line. In ArcMap, the total length is shown on the statusbar.

Re: Show total line length during editing/digitalizing

JustinRego — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:42:26 GMT

I do a calculation attribute rule to autoupdate a Length_ft field on insert and update, and use that to label the field in the map so I can see it without having the table or the construct features toolbar open. I use an additional label expression to add " ft" to the value for the label.