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

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.