topic Re: Re-opening Suitability Model in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions

Re-opening Suitability Model

PaulBooks_CoA — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:40:05 GMT

When I re-open an existing suitability model from the content pane, the parameters no longer appear under the suitability pane and I am unable to make an further changes to transformations and weights. I still see all the transformed rasters under sources but they are not in the suitability pane or the group layer. Any recommendations on how to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

SteveLynch — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:44:40 GMT

What version of ArcGIS Pro are you using?

Please include a screenshot of what you are seeing.

...and, if you've not opened the Suitability model after opening the ArcGIS Pro project, see the image below on how to open it.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

PaulBooks_CoA — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:52:29 GMT

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply. That is the same process I used to re-open the model. Below is a screenshot showing the source rasters and the suitability pane having no visible parameters.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

SteveLynch — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:05:03 GMT

Do any of your criteria rasters appear in the Suitability group layer in the Contents pane?

Did you convert the criteria rasters to Web Imagery layers or another raster dataset on disk?

Can you email me (slynch@esri.com) the .sam file, it is a JSON text file in the same folder as your ArcGIS Pro project?

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

MaritFrost1 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:21:53 GMT

Hi! I have this same problem and it is killing me. Suitability modeler loses all of its iterative workflow for me if I have to re-transform everything each time I close the model (or ArcGIS crashes). Have you found any way to reopen the transformation pane without everything resetting and re-transforming every criteria?

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

SteveLynch — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:49:24 GMT

What version of ArcGIS Pro are you using?

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

GloriaBlaise — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 05:54:52 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am having this exact issue and have no clue whether I should just stop using the suitability modeler and use a classic method to weigh these layers. All of the transformations are removed from the parameters and I cannot locate regions unless I do the transformations all over again. The suitability map is still in the project but somehow no longer linked...

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Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

SteveLynch — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:42:42 GMT

I'm sorry to hear that you are having problems.

What version of ArcGIS Pro are you using?

Once you've done the transformations you need to create a full resolution Suitability map before doing Locate Regions. If you look at the properties of the suitability raster you'll notice that it is an .afr (a function raster) and it needs to be persisted to a full resolution resolution raster. This is all done within Suitability Modeler.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

GloriaBlaise — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:39:27 GMT

Thank you Steve,

I am using 3.0. I did not run this before it crashed and so I will give it a try again tonight and see if I can get past the final run before locating.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

EmmaCurran18 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:48:09 GMT

@SteveLynch I would like to note that I am having the same issue with the Suitability Modeler not keeping transformations intact after the model pane is closed.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

SteveLynch — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:55:31 GMT

Emma

Which version of ArcGIS Pro are you using?

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

CapeCodCommission — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:27:59 GMT

Hi Steve, FYI this is happening to me too.

I am in a weird loop that might be unrelated but I am mentioning it. I am running Pro 3.2.2.

I create a Suitability model; run the map; run the locate; go to evaluate and ArcPro crashes.

I go back in to recovered project and the Suitability model is not saved. I reopen it from Catalog, repopulate it, save the project. Go to the Evaluate Pane, ArcPro crashes.

Open recovered project and the model is not saved.

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

SteveLynch — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:37:09 GMT

You need to save the model and can do it anytime while modeling, noting that it'll save all you've done up to that point (you can do the save for your ArcGIS Pro project).

Please make sure that you have either of the 2 default base maps (World Topography Map and/or World Hillshade) in your map. We will remove this limitation in 3.3

Re: Re-opening Suitability Model

CapeCodCommission — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:55:08 GMT

Steve, thanks for the quick response. And you are correct, adding the base map got the Evaluate pane to load!