topic Re: Repair Geometry Failed in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:50:42 GMT

When I trying to use the Feature to Raster tool I get these horizontal streak lines, another post said that the Repair Geometry tool should help to fix this and when trying to run the Repair Geometry tool I get this error message

999999: Something unexpected caused the tool to fail. Contact Esri Technical Support (http://esriurl.com/support) to Report a Bug, and refer to the error help for potential solutions or workarounds.

I tried pulling the feature into a blank project to run in case it was an issue with the project and the same thing happens. I then thought I'd try to go a round-about way by doing Feature to Polygon then Polygon to Raster, but Feature to Polygon failed with this error message

160196: Invalid Topology

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

DanPatterson — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:13:22 GMT

Repair geometry works on vector geometry, to ensure that is what you are trying to do first.

Repair geometry does not work on raster data.

If what you are trying to "repair" is indeed vector-based, what type of data is it? A featureclass in a file geodatabase? So web-based thing? Cad data? etc etc

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:00:50 GMT

@DanPatterson

im trying to repair a feature class that is in a geodatabase, its originally ssurgo data that i have edited down to a single sand type. I've restarted this project several times because at several points ive been unable to find the causes of errors, however, ive just duplicated the errors. This is the most trouble ive had with a project so ive included some screenshots of my notes to give a better understanding of everything ive done - they are unedited sorry

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

DanPatterson — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 05:15:53 GMT

well at least you have the brilliant guy with the extract by mask idea going for you.

Now back to the geometry.

The original featureclass should be check for geometry errors, that is the one first used in the project. No clipping, messing with borders etc.

....ssurgo data that i have edited down to a single sand type....

if you are only interested in one sand type, then do a Select By Attributes to get all the records for that type, then Copy Features to get a "clean" (hopefully) featureclass of just that sand type. No editing geometry

Run a Check Geometry on that file. If it needs to be repaired, run Repair Geometry.

once you get a clean file with the one sand type, clip it so size or whatever. and proceed from there.

I would review your notes if that doesn't give you a starting point.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

DavidPike — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:39:53 GMT

Agree with Dan. I'd export to a new Feature Class first (after selecting SDand only as Dan said). That may exclude the troublesome features from the export, so I would also then do a select by location (input=originalFeatures, selectFeatures=newFeatures) and see if any features from the original are missing from the selection.

Then check Geometry - not repair - it may give you more details rather than a blanket error.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:50:22 GMT

@DavidPike @DanPatterson

Thank you for the suggestions I will try this out. I've ran the Check Geometry tool several times throughout all this and often get these warning errors:

WARNING 000442: short segments at 3554 in ne_sands3

WARNING 000442: short segments at 1734 in midwest_sands_test

which was why I was running the Repair Geometry tool. I had previously ran the Check Geometry tool on the original but it came back with no errors so that lead me to believe that it was something I was doing after that.

I started it again around 11am today and it's still running but when I hover over the progress bar it shows this warning message

WARNING 000442: could not find spatial index at -1 in Map Unit Polygons - CONUS

the properties show that there is a spatial index attached to the feature. Hopefully I'll have an output soon.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

RhettZufelt — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:38:11 GMT

Are you using enterprise geodatabase or File geodatabase?

I have ran into issues trying to repair geometry with SDE data. Even if it says it completed, copy to FGDB and the errors are still there.

Don't know if this is related to your issues, but can't hurt to check.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:37:12 GMT

It's a file geodatabase feature class. it's still trying to check geometry since 11am, I was really hoping I could get away with using 3.4 but I'm starting to consider uninstalling and going back to the older version to see if it will run there.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:37:24 GMT

this is an update - i started a new project because it was taking too long to run and the fresh data had some warnings with short segments after running the check geometry tool. I tried to then run the repair geometry and got the same 999999 error message.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

DanPatterson — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:58:53 GMT

Sort the ShapeLength field in ascending order.

What appears? Select one or two of the rows and Zoom To Selected?

Are they real? Are they needed? Can you delete them?

It might solve trying to repair something that isn't worth it

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:08:58 GMT

unfortunately, the errors are with data i need. I've attached a screenshot of what the message looks like, i'm starting to think it might be a bug and not something i've done. I'm going to try to go back to the 3.3 version and see if that makes a difference bc i've exhausted everything i know to try

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

DanPatterson — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:12:22 GMT

well short segments and self intersections as the error states,

If you could select a few of those and export/save those to a new empty geodatabase, maybe the trip to a new home will make them better, If not, I wouldn't waste any more time since nothing has helped apparently and Tech Support should be better equipped to deal with issues like this.

Re: Repair Geometry Failed

SydneyHeathcott — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:21:37 GMT

this is an update - I downgraded back to 3.3 and started my project over and it has fixed this issue.