topic Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

AnttiMansikka1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:02:39 GMT

I am inserting a scale bar to my map layout. The tool generates objects that appear to be empty scale bar frames, but not scale bars. Could it be that the Scale Bar tool (Map Surrounds) is not working correctly in 1.3 version? Or am I missing something?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:47:29 GMT

It seems to be working for me, but I do have a layer with a known coordinate system specified. Here is the procedure I used

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

AnttiMansikka1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:16:21 GMT

Thank You, Dan.

It seems the procedure works for You but not for me, and I also have my map in a known coordinate system.

Regrettably my scale bars keep on looking like this:

Thanks for the advice, though.

B.R.

Antti

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:51:52 GMT

well at least the scalebar is there... that leaves the units, and the extent of your map layer ... can your report those since it may be that km is not the right unit to choose, (try meters or something scaled appropriately)

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

AnttiMansikka1 — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 05:29:03 GMT

It is possible to choose the scale and units in ArcGIS Desktop, but ArcGIS Pro doesn't seem to offer that, at least not in the GUI. I also tried different map extents and coordinate system (base maps' 'Web Mercator' and 'EurefFIn TM 35 Fin'), but that didn't help.

Maybe I'm just too old to switch from desktop to ArcGIS Pro...

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

HectorBorro1 — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:06:04 GMT

you can change the units under PROJECT in the top left corner

Then OPTIONS

and finally UNITS.

Did it work for you?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

AnttiMansikka2 — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 07:29:25 GMT

Hi Hector!

Thanks for the tip, but changing units in the PROJECT tab didn't bring any result either.

B. R.

Antti

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 07:54:50 GMT

what are the coordinate systems of the layers in the map? are the layers all feature classes or do you have a oher types like basemaps or event layers?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

AnttiMansikka2 — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 08:57:59 GMT

Hi guys!

I opened a totally new project just to test the Scale Bar tool, and now it is working fine.

The reason for the malfunction dwells in the ArcGIS Pro project document that I was working. I couldn't find out what was causing it (tested the map units, the extent, and the coordinate system) but in the document there are several Network Analyst analysis layers, which are memory objects and less conventional map layers than feature classes are. Might that be why? Anyway I'm happy I got it working in another project.

b.r.

Antti

Re: ArcGIS Pro 1.3 Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:31:00 GMT

glad it worked, ... I am not sure about the memory mapped objects being an issue, I will have to add that to the list of checks. And yes, a reboot and restart might move up the pecking order of things to do first. Thanks for the update