https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/fields-precision-and-scale/m-p/1306601#M70903 <P>from</P><P><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/add-field.htm" target="_blank">Add Field (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation</A></P><P>Note:<BR />Field precision and scale are not supported in a file geodatabase feature class or table. If you enter a value for precision or scale, it will be ignored.</P><P>subsequent to the Note is more description as to what happens and what field types are specified for data types</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:23:18 GMT DanPatterson 2023-07-07T17:23:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/fields-precision-and-scale/m-p/1306482#M70895 <P>When I create a new Feature Class in ArcGIS Pro, this are the field settings:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="SimonSchtte_ct_2-1688729079677.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74991i1825FFC412FD35C7/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="SimonSchtte_ct_2-1688729079677.png" alt="SimonSchtte_ct_2-1688729079677.png" /></span><BR /><BR />When I export the Feature Class as Shape file and look at the field settings, it looks like this:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="SimonSchtte_ct_4-1688729231927.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74993i0978F537635422FF/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="SimonSchtte_ct_4-1688729231927.png" alt="SimonSchtte_ct_4-1688729231927.png" /></span></P><P><BR />I only found this on the topic:&nbsp;<A href="https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-customize-numeric-data-precision-and-scale-in-ar-000029280#:~:text=In%20ArcGIS%20Pro%2C%20the%20precision%20and%20scale%20of,field%20with%20a%20float%20or%20double%20data%20type." target="_blank">How To: Customize Numeric Data Precision and Scale in ArcGIS Pro (esri.com)</A><BR /><BR />But if we look at the screenshot here <A href="https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-round-off-numbers-to-a-given-number-of-decimal-p-000025170" target="_blank">How To: Round off Numbers to a given Number of Decimal Places in an Attribute Table and La (esri.com),</A>&nbsp;precision and scale are not listed:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="SimonSchtte_ct_6-1688729339712.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74994i50ADD5F648D78552/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="SimonSchtte_ct_6-1688729339712.png" alt="SimonSchtte_ct_6-1688729339712.png" /></span><BR /><BR /><BR /></P><P>When I set the Decimal places in Number format to 5 and export the Feature Class to Shape, this is the result:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="SimonSchtte_ct_7-1688729644693.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74995i659BA8D938E1C72D/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="SimonSchtte_ct_7-1688729644693.png" alt="SimonSchtte_ct_7-1688729644693.png" /></span></P><P><BR />It would be great if someone could explain this behaviour <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:35:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/fields-precision-and-scale/m-p/1306482#M70895 SimonSchütte_ct 2023-07-07T11:35:05Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/fields-precision-and-scale/m-p/1306601#M70903 <P>from</P><P><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/add-field.htm" target="_blank">Add Field (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation</A></P><P>Note:<BR />Field precision and scale are not supported in a file geodatabase feature class or table. If you enter a value for precision or scale, it will be ignored.</P><P>subsequent to the Note is more description as to what happens and what field types are specified for data types</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:23:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/fields-precision-and-scale/m-p/1306601#M70903 DanPatterson 2023-07-07T17:23:18Z