Need help building a simple model

WightmanAdmin — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:46:40 GMT

I have a large amount of shapefiles that I need to do a few things to. First I need to export them as individual Feature Classes into a Feature Dataset within a File Geodatabase. Then I need to add 5 fields to them.

SHEET_NAME text 50
ENGINEER text 100
PROJECT_NO text 50
SHEET_NO text 50
DATE text 50

Also, they can just be named what the shapefile is named.

Any thoughts on this?

As always thank you in advance.

Re: Need help building a simple model

JakeSkinner — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 04:42:12 GMT

Hi Ryan,

You could probably accomplish this easier with python. Here is an example:

import arcpy
from arcpy import env

# set workspace where shapefiles are located
env.workspace = r"C:\data\temp\python"

# create empty list
list = []

# append each shapefile in workspace to list
for shapefile in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*.shp"):
    list.append(shapefile)

# import list of shapefiles into File Geodatabase feature dataset
arcpy.FeatureClassToGeodatabase_conversion(list, r"C:\Temp\Python\Redlands.gdb\Data")

# set workspace to File Geodatabase
env.workspace = r"C:\Temp\Python\Redlands.gdb"

# loop through each feature class in 'Data' feature dataset and add fields
for fc in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*", "", "Data"):
    arcpy.AddField_management(fc, "SHEET_NAME", "TEXT", "", "", "50")
    arcpy.AddField_management(fc, "ENGINEER", "TEXT", "", "", "100")
    arcpy.AddField_management(fc, "PROJECT_NO", "TEXT", "", "", "50")
    arcpy.AddField_management(fc, "SHEET_NO", "TEXT", "", "", "50")
    arcpy.AddField_management(fc, "DATE", "TEXT", "", "", "50")

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