topic Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing in ArcGIS Pro Questions

10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

JohnSobetzer — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:09:41 GMT

I installed 10.6 yesterday late and noticed today that the buffer wizard crashes ArcMap every time I try to use it. I used the buffer tool instead but figured I would make a note of this indirectly for tech support. Here is an error message from Event Viewer:

Faulting application name: ArcMap.exe, version: 10.6.0.8321, time stamp: 0x5a2b5885
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.16299.125, time stamp: 0x9e3394c7
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x00091912
Faulting process id: 0x2234
Faulting application start time: 0x01d39154445590b7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.6\bin\ArcMap.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll
Report Id: 879c0a8d-cd27-4f28-8c37-c971a354e504
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

GarryDent — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:34:20 GMT

Having the same problem with the Buffer Wizard.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

XanderBakker — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:36:44 GMT

Confirmed... crashes in my case too (I used only 4 point features, no dissolving and creating graphics). Can anyone of you report this bug in my.esri? CC KKramer-esristaff‌

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:20:51 GMT

I checked internally and here is the explanation I found: "the data is stored in a coordinate system which is not appropriate. The polygon extends past the valid horizon of this coordinate system. Either switch to using geoprocessing buffer tool or re-project the data into a more appropriate coordinate system (like GCS_1984)."

I haven't tested myself to determine specifics, particularly the part about "the polygon extends past the valid horizon of this coordinate system" but the meaning is clear. This has to do with the coordinate system. Reproject the data to a coordinate system with a larger spatial domain, or use the geoprocessing tool.

If you are still experiencing a crash and can send a reproducible case, please contact me.

Thank you!

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

XanderBakker — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:36:34 GMT

Thanks KKramer-esristaff !

I will test with a projected and geographic coordinate system and post back the results, but I'm pretty sure that it will generate an error (and any way, when ArcMap crashes it is definitely a bug, since that should never happen).

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:46:54 GMT

You're welcome, Xander Bakker‌ I was not debating whether this is a bug or not, just trying to provide some helpful information

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

JohnSobetzer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:57:47 GMT

In case this is useful, I'll note I had the crash, and just repeated the crash, using the plain old garden variety UTM Nad83 Z19 coordinate system (26919), both for the data frame and the source data. I also tested the Editor buffer tool and it does work.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:14:38 GMT

Screenshots, John?

It looks like I can create a buffer right along the "edge" of the coordinate system:

Are you buffering points, lines, polygons?

Can you send data (or even just a single feature that will reproduce the crash)?

Or at least a screenshot giving some more context?

Cheers

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

XanderBakker — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:16:27 GMT

Just did a test with a point layer using the GCS_WGS_1984 coordinate system:

These are the settings I used:

... which results in a crash:

I also used the same layer projected to Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere.using the almost the same settings:

This time I did not generate graphics, I choose to write the features to a new featureclass in a FGDB:

and again it crashed.

Kory Kramer‌, I have attached the data if you want to test it yourself...

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

JohnSobetzer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:25:22 GMT

I took 3 snippets.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:40:59 GMT

Thanks xander_bakker‌ and johns‌ I am off to a training this morning but will try to grab some time to look at this this afternoon. I'll follow up then. Cheers.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:19:23 GMT

johns‌ Are you able to use the Buffer (Analysis) geoprocessing tool? I'm just curious whether there is something about the buffer wizard that you use that the gp tool doesn't provide...

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

JohnSobetzer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:29:33 GMT

I ended up using the Buffer Analysis tool. I use the buffer wizard mostly because I've been using it for years, it is simple and convenient, I sometimes only need a graphic and it never produces true curves even if the output is a feature class. (I hate true curves.) But this is not a major issue problem for me now that I know it is a bug.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:29:16 GMT

Good to know. Thanks, John.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

RichardDaniels — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:52:45 GMT

Interesting "valid horizon of this coordinate system" implies the wizard has been extended to support 3D data. It is probably not handling Z=No Data correctly. Secondly, ESRI must have also added some new 'error checking' at 10.6 that was not their before (I've never had a buffer 'clipped' based on a selected coordinate system).

For example, UTM zones are not necessarily mathematically limited (i.e, east-west UTM Zone 19 coordinates can be used to reference a position that would fall within UTM Zone 18 or 20, that is because we use false eastings in the UTM definition).

https://maptools.com/tutorials/grid_zone_details

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

SarahWigley — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:48:38 GMT

I'm having the same issue. Doing exactly the same as I did in 10.5, but it's now crashing. I use this tool a lot for creating multiple ring buffers around polygons (in order to create a faded edge on a map). I'm now using the multiple ring buffer script instead (found in ArcToolbox), but it's really time consuming having to add the distance values manually. The buffer wizard allowed you to enter the total distance and the number of rings and it would then calculate each buffer distance automatically.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:43:42 GMT

Not that this would be a 1:1 solve for creating multiple ring buffers with the buffer wizard, but for the use case of creating faded edges, you could look into using the gradient fill option in ArcGIS Pro.

Fill symbol layers—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

SarahWigley — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:45:10 GMT

Thanks, that's a useful suggestion (you can also do gradient fills in ArcMap), which I hadn't thought of. However, I want to have the gradient colours go from transparent (close to the polygon) to white (further away from the polygon). This way, I get a nice faded edge showing the basemap underneath fade out to nothing. I tried changing the blue in the screenshot below to 'no colour' but it doesn't work (just shows as white). Any thoughts? With the multiple buffer rings, I used to add a field that contained transparency values, which I used to alter the transparency of each of the rings.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

KoryKramer — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:08:42 GMT

You could give that blue some transparency by clicking its dropdown arrow > Color Properties to open the Color Editor and setting transparency:

Maybe that will help.

Re: 10.6 Buffer Wizard crashing

SarahWigley — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:40:50 GMT

Ooh I didn't realise you could change transparency of individual colours in ArcGIS Pro (great feature!). However, it still doesn't seem to work for gradient fills - unless I'm missing something? The colour changes in the preview icon, but on the map it stays the same (i.e. as if it was 0% transparent). See below, first screenshot the blue has 0% transparency, second screenshot the blue has 100% transparency. I've tried with 50% or 90%, etc, but nothing changes it.