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Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

BrianKneller — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:08:49 GMT

I have been using Add Geometry sucessfully for a period of time and now today the tool will not run. M y work flow is straight forward: Polyline converted to equal segment lengths ( Split Line - date management) then split lines through add geometry to determine bearing of each segment. I get the following error message. I have looked at the python (I am not very conversant) script, but I cannot see where the problem is. Any help would be appreciated.

Thankyou

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Executing: AddGeometryAttributes "C:\Users\Brian Knelller\Documents\ARCGIS\Mars_Working_Template\Mars_GeneralGeo.gdb\FluvialCorridor_Channel_11_Complete\Channel_11_Complete_LRA_LOWER_SPLIT" LINE_START_MID_END;LINE_BEARING # # PROJCS['Mars2000_EquidistantCylindrical_CLON0',GEOGCS['GCS_Mars_2000_Sphere',DATUM['D_Mars2000_Sphere',SPHEROID['Mars2000_IAU_IAG_Sphere',3396190.0,0.0]],PRIMEM['Reference_Meridian',0.0],UNIT['Degree',0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION['Equidistant_Cylindrical'],PARAMETER['False_Easting',0.0],PARAMETER['False_Northing',0.0],PARAMETER['Central_Meridian',0.0],PARAMETER['Standard_Parallel_1',0.0],UNIT['Meter',1.0]]

Start Time: Sat Apr 23 19:11:18 2016

Running script AddGeometryAttributes...

Failed script AddGeometryAttributes...

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Scripts\AddGeometryAttributes.py", line 292, in <module>

AddGeometryAttributes(fc, geomProperties, lUnit, aUnit, cs)

File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Scripts\AddGeometryAttributes.py", line 49, in AddGeometryAttributes

fields = CreateOutputFields(fc, geomProperties, hasZ, hasM)

File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Scripts\AddGeometryAttributes.py", line 244, in CreateOutputFields

arcpy.da.ExtendTable(fc, "OID@", narray, "_ID")

RuntimeError: General function failure [Channel_11_Complete_LRA_LOWER_SPLIT]

Failed to execute (AddGeometryAttributes).

Failed at Sat Apr 23 19:11:20 2016 (Elapsed Time: 1.69 seconds)

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:37:52 GMT

where is narray and what is in it? check its contents first.. and joins usually fail if the join table is empty...perhaps the array is empty

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

BrianKneller — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 19:03:55 GMT

Helo Dan, The narray intially contained FID, Shape (Polyline) & shape_Length and I set Add Geometry to return Line_Start_Mid_End & Line Bearing. Upon failure I got a mix of resuts which included, no change to the intial narray, the initial array + headers of the columns of the additional attributes with no data, and finally the initial array + headers of the columns of the additional attributes with all zeros for data. I have 21,000, data entries in narray and suspecting it was a memory issue I cleaned up my PC and realised around 4.5 Gbytes of free disk. It still did not work. Subsequent to my mail I moved the intial feature data from the gbd in mydocs to an external drive with 100 Gbytes of spare disc space and Add Geometry worked OK. So problem solved to a point -- Am I correct in assuming that ARC found the space demand to great for the gdb and if so what are the limits because I would have expected the spare capacity 4.5Gbytes to be sufficent, or have I grossly underestimated sizes or missed something?

Thanks Brian

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

DanPatterson_Retired — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 19:12:41 GMT

File geodatabases have not issues What is a file geodatabase?—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

What is your memory and your hard disk space? 21k isn't a lot of records so unless you have an very limited amount of memory and/or no room on the hard drive I don't see that being much of an issue.

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

BrianKneller — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:40:23 GMT

I have a MacBook Pro Retina running Win 7 (service pack 1) under bootcamp. There is 8Gb of Memory, a 400Mb swap file and 3.9Gb of free disk. I would have thought this would have been more than adequate to run the utility. Its puzzling me because I have only had the problem with "Split Line" quite a while ago when I used most of the available disc space and this time this is not the case.

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:45:11 GMT

All I can suggest is do it in parts, your available memory and hard disk space isn't all available for the tool to run, so try it in parts (may 1/2, or if that fails 1/4, 1/8 etc) just to see if the process works or it some other issue. You can always reassemble after the fact

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

BrianKneller — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:13:48 GMT

Hi Dan

Sorry for the delay and thanks for the suggestion I will try them tomorrow.

Brian

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:18:54 GMT

keep us posted

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

BrianKneller — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:27:12 GMT

License is about to time out and need to finish an assignment, is it OK if I reply next week when I get a refresh ?

Re: Problems with Add Geometry (Data Management)

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:50:16 GMT

no problem