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SEDF creating additional fields; Shape_Length and Shape_Area in gdb fc

TylerT — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:41:19 GMT

Hello,

I work a lot with Spatially Enabled DataFrames (SEDFs). I have noticed that when using the df.spatial.to_featureclass(*some.gdb) method, two additional fields are created in the in the output gdb feature class (Shape_Length and Shape_Area (if applicable)) without request.

Has anybody else noticed this behavior and have any ideas how to suppress this?

Thank you,

Tyler

ArcGIS Pro 3.0.3

Re: SEDF creating additional fields; Shape_Length and Shape_Area in gdb fc

DanPatterson — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:38:41 GMT

some fields in a file gdb can't be deleted or their creation suppressed because they are required and managed by the gdb.

Field—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

import arcpy z0 = r"C:\Arc_projects\Test_29\Test_29.gdb\clp" [f"{i.name}, {i.required}" for i in arcpy.ListFields(z0)] ['OBJECTID, True', 'Shape, True', 'Shape_Length, True', 'Shape_Area, True']

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Re: SEDF creating additional fields; Shape_Length and Shape_Area in gdb fc

TylerT — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:37:16 GMT

I wasn't asking to delete them, rather to not create them without explicitly doing so. I have plenty of feature classes without those fields. Anybody else?

One reason I'm looking to avoid their creation is because Shape_Length and Shape_Area are reserved names for web layers.

Tyler