topic Re: flow symbol in ArcGIS Enterprise Portal Questions

flow symbol

MikeHenson — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:00:58 GMT

can someone tell me how to draw the attached symbol. I am using for sewer line to flow the direction that I drew it. Thanks

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:11:35 GMT

Mike,

You can use "Arrow Right Middle" and "Water,Flow" symbol.

Regards,

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:18:36 GMT

"Water,Flow" symbol is in "Caves" Style References.

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MikeHenson — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:18:31 GMT

I apologize for asking such a newbie question but how do I assign the water flow symbol to that line? I have always just used the std. symbols from the list.

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:34:51 GMT

Mike,

Follow the steps mentioned below:
-Add the Sewer Line Feature class in ArcMap
-Right click on Sewer Line feature class and open "Layer Properties"
-Select the "Symbology" tab
-Click on the symbol
-Click on "Style References" and scroll down and check "Caves" and hit "OK"
-Scroll down to select "Water,Flow" symbol in "Symbol Selector"
- Select "Water,Flow" and hit "OK"

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Re: flow symbol

MikeHenson — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:52:14 GMT

iv'e finally started using the water, flow symbol. Now a couple more questions. How do I make the symbol (arrow) bigger, and I would like to display the arrow at the middle of the line, and the end of the line. Any way to do that? Thanks

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:08:07 GMT

You can use "Line Decoration Editor" option to make the symbol bigger.

Re: flow symbol

BenLeslie1 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:50:37 GMT

I'm trying to do something similar except I want to create points at certain intervals along the line, then orientate the point to the line and if possible copy the orientation value into an attribute of the point.

I am using representations to orientate the point symbol to the line however I'm getting some unexpected results - see attached some symbols are at 180degrees to the others - how can I correct this?
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28739[/ATTACH]

And anyone know if it is possible to copy the rotation value into an attribute of the point - not sure where to start on that bit?

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:50:16 GMT

The orientation of symbol is based on the direction you digitize the feature. If you digitize from left to right, the arrow will be pointing towards right.

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BenLeslie1 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:13:25 GMT

Thanks, maybe I misunderstand what you mean but I don't think that explains my problem because the line I have drawn is a single contiunous line and yet some of the points orientate at 180 degrees to one another. Even looking at the underlying direction of each segment it doesn't seem to explain the discrepancy in the orientation.

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:20:23 GMT

Will you be able to upload the Feature class here

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BenLeslie1 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:38:31 GMT

Is it possible to upload a geodatabase to the forum - I can't see how to do it?

Anyway I'm just testing the procedure so there is no proper data but these are the steps I have done:

1. Draw a line
2. Use Construct points to place points along the line.
3. Set up a Representation on the line feature that follows the direction of the line.
4. Set up a Representation on the point feature.
5. Use Align Marker to Stoke or Fill so the representation on the point feature also follows the direction of the line (or that is the idea anyway).

What I ultimately want to do is:
a) Draw a line.
b) Add points along the line.
c) Rotate the points so they follow the line.
d) Copy the rotation value to a feature attribute so it can be read in another program.

Re: flow symbol

NidhinKarthikeyan — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:09:14 GMT

You can find it under "Additional Options" - "Attachments" - "Manage Attachments".

Re: flow symbol

BenLeslie1 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:18:34 GMT

Ah I see, I have to zip it.