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Modifying a geometry brings up an error message

TimLangner — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:49:32 GMT

I was attempting to move an edge of ellipse today but could not move it. I accidentally moved it's point and and got the following error message:
"The feature's geometry could not be modified. The geometry is invalid."

I am using 10.0.4. Is there a reason why the edge of an ellipse cannot be modified? Will this behaviour be the same in ArcMap 10.1?

Kind regards

Re: Modifying a geometry brings up an error message

balendrashukla — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:51:58 GMT

this is not a version problem, problem in your features ,those features are geometrical invalid.
use this link may be this will help you. http://support.esri.com/es/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/34778

Re: Modifying a geometry brings up an error message

TimLangner — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:19:59 GMT

Thanks for your reply

I read through the article but it makes for difficult reading because I've never used geometric networks or any of the connect or disconnect commands.

As I was connecting to an ArcSDE Geodatabase, which of course cannot have any geometric errors corrected, even those created after the upload of data. In fact if you didn't upload any data you can't have created any errors prior to the data creation.

It's one of the negative points of ArcSDE Geodatabases, which has many pluses but when you hit problems like this, you sometimes wonder if this outweighs them. It wouldn't be so bad if complete archives could be exported. Then you could export all the data, clean it and reimport it. Alas you can't do that, which is why problems like this become a much larger issue.

Kind regards

Tim