topic Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Help troubleshooting runaway tool

ChristopherTalbot — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:57:32 GMT

In Arc Pro:

every time I create a new polygon and attempt to calculate the geometry

arc just "works" on it forever.

I have let it run up to 30 minutes once just to see... no avail

the tool running does not cancel and does not allow the program to close.

The only thing I can do to fix this is end the task through task manager and restart the entire arc pro.

Please if you have an idea what might be causing this/possible solution let me know.

Thank you

Sincerely,

Christopher

Esri Technical Support

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Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

ChristopherTalbot — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:05:42 GMT

*additional info:

I attempted to cancel the tool as well, to no avail

Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

DanPatterson — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:46:55 GMT

Is there a need to calculate geometry before you are done creating your shapes?

Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

ChristopherTalbot — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:49:05 GMT

apologize for the unclearness:

Whenever this happens I have already completed the polygon.

Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

DanPatterson — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:24:56 GMT

Sorry, I wasn't clear too. I meant after you saved your edits and stopped editing

Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

ChristopherTalbot — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:06:26 GMT

ok, you mean can i just create all the shapes that I need to...and then calculate the geometry? No, I need to do this for verification on each before moving on; and there is like 400 or so.

Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

DanPatterson — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:14:30 GMT

Each time you save and stop edits the Shape field and its associated Shape_Area field gets updated if you are using a featureclass in a gdb.. Not sure what area you are calculating then. It would be a pain to do that 400 times.

Re: Message in a bottle: help troubleshooting runaway tool

ChristopherTalbot — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:35:44 GMT

yes, is a bit of a pain, but this is our workflow. The calculated geometry is for acres vs. area.