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

ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:32:59 GMT

Arcgis Pro v 2.12

I'd like to size a scale bar so the divisions are divisible by 5. I can get:

And all I want is 0,5,10,15,20 miles....

Also, is it me or does the select map element tool just not work?

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:21:47 GMT

Joe... right-click on the scalebar, go to properties... there are the usual simple things, but if you click on the drop down arrows, it opens up a whole new world of things you can vary.

You have to putz around, but you can get what you need. perhaps it is unique to the miles/feet thing... metric is perfect

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:33:53 GMT

Tried that Dan; didn't work for me....

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:14:15 GMT

you did the obvious stretch/shrink thing first (which is a real pain), and the manual setting on the width etc?

I found the creating scalebar thing the same as in ArcMap... fussy, finicky, but eventually you get it.

Picture 30 students in a class all fussing with scalebars, until one gets it... a class hero is born

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 03:28:25 GMT

Joe.. any crashes? seems like making maps with legends and scalebars is causing issues

https://community.esri.com/thread/211227-legend-formatting-and-crashing-software-212-disappoints

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:26:07 GMT

I sized the scale bar manually and by setting the width in .01 inch increments in the properties. Sizing by hand is weird as the only way I could select any layout element was from the contents pane, not with the traditional mouse click approach:tried all the selection types, rectangle, lasso etc nothing worked but the the contents pane.

Didn't get any crashes, but I did notice Pro gets 'confused' while in layout mode. Changing text will first display no change, then the old text string and new text string mashed together and then finally the desired change. Same thing happens when resizing a text box.

I'll give a pass for now, especially since most of the work I do dosen't include layouts anyway. I've only dabbled with Pro and arcpy so far: the python window has me stmyied, as I like to (aka used to) see the whole code block and not one small line at a time. Maybe there is a way to adjust the properties of the python window; my old-guy eyes have a really hard time with it. I'm curious to see how the sdk approach to customizing the gui will work versus the python addin approach.

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Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

KoryKramer — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:03:47 GMT

Joe,

You'll want to hit the Scale Bar > Design tab. Go to the Divisions group. You want your divisions to be values of 5, so set the Division Value to 5. If you want to hold the division value constant, change the Resize Behavior to 'Adjust number of divisions'

If I drag it wider:

Or narrower:

My division value is maintained and the number of divisions is adjusted.

Hope this helps.

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:14:33 GMT

Kory- that's the ticket. Thanks!

Is there a trick to selecting the elements? I can't seem to get them interactively, only by a single click with in the contents pane.

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

KoryKramer — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:25:39 GMT

Hmmm, silly question, but do you have the Select tool activated?

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:39:34 GMT

Yep. Doing just what you are demonstrating above, but none of the select tools are working for me.

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Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

KoryKramer — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:44:11 GMT

It looks like you're working with Northridge tutorial data/project? Can you insert a new layout, add just a map frame (not from a scene), then maybe a quick legend, scale bar and test selecting those? If that doesn't work, open a new project, use your own data, create a quick layout and test selecting elements. I want to see if it might be something about the Northridge project.

Thanks

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:53:42 GMT

Will do. I was planning to create something later today with my own data; I'm thinking maybe the 3D stuff is contributing to the sluggishness.

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

KoryKramer — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:57:34 GMT

Thanks, Joe. I think it could be - this isn't to say that we don't want the development team to take a look and understand if there is an issue, but I seem to remember seeing some performance issues previously with the Northridge layout... So I'll dig in a bit deeper on our side to see if that is in the backlog and if you could follow up with what you find about working with the layout select tools in another layout, that would be great.

Thank you!

Re: ArcGIS Pro Layout Scale Bar

JoeBorgione — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:44:05 GMT

Kory Kramer‌

Kory- Added a new layout to the Northridge Project with just the 2D map frame added. After adding a north arrow, legend and scale bar I am still unable to select using a select tool. I also added some of my own data to a whole new project. Same thing; can't select with any select tool

Something else I noticed is if I select an element from the contents pane, the grab handles for that element appear, and there is a message in the lower right corner telling me 1 element is selected. But.... I can use the select tool to unselect the element with a single click anywhere in the layout; at least the grab handles disappear but the message still says one element selected and the Clear Selection button in the Elements group is still available. Obviously that element is still selected. Perhaps that is how it's supposed to work? We should probably move this to a new discussion, rather than adding to this question thread.