topic Re: There was a problem drawing the shapefile. Drawing aborted. in Esri Tutorials Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-tutorials-questions/there-was-a-problem-drawing-the-shapefile-drawing/m-p/38805#M22 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/shapefiles/geoprocessing-considerations-for-shapefile-output.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/shapefiles/geoprocessing-considerations-for-shapefile-output.htm">Geoprocessing considerations for shapefile output—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P><P>There is a 2 Gb size limit for any of the shapefile's components.</P><P>Use a smaller area of the raster and try to see if it works at all before trying a large or details area.</P><P>I would use</P><P></P><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/conversion/raster-to-polygon.htm" title="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/conversion/raster-to-polygon.htm">Raster to Polygon—Conversion toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp; (or one of the other tools in the conversion toolset)</P><P></P><P>and save the resultant as a featureclass in a geodatabase first, rather than a shapefile.&nbsp; You can always export the featureclass to a shapefile after you do some spatial and attribute cleanup.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Sep 2019 04:25:51 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2019-09-14T04:25:51Z There was a problem drawing the shapefile. Drawing aborted. https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-tutorials-questions/there-was-a-problem-drawing-the-shapefile-drawing/m-p/38804#M21 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is the second time this has happened with a large shapefile converted from raster. I saw the discussion about checking geometry and also about saving as a file geodatabase, but neither solution worked. Is it possible the shapefile at 2+ GB is simply too big too draw? Any other ideas? I also get an error when trying to export the attribute table saying "the table was not found."</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:30:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-tutorials-questions/there-was-a-problem-drawing-the-shapefile-drawing/m-p/38804#M21 EvanIsaacson 2019-09-12T20:30:07Z Re: There was a problem drawing the shapefile. Drawing aborted. https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-tutorials-questions/there-was-a-problem-drawing-the-shapefile-drawing/m-p/38805#M22 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/shapefiles/geoprocessing-considerations-for-shapefile-output.htm" title="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/shapefiles/geoprocessing-considerations-for-shapefile-output.htm">Geoprocessing considerations for shapefile output—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P><P>There is a 2 Gb size limit for any of the shapefile's components.</P><P>Use a smaller area of the raster and try to see if it works at all before trying a large or details area.</P><P>I would use</P><P></P><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/conversion/raster-to-polygon.htm" title="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/conversion/raster-to-polygon.htm">Raster to Polygon—Conversion toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp; (or one of the other tools in the conversion toolset)</P><P></P><P>and save the resultant as a featureclass in a geodatabase first, rather than a shapefile.&nbsp; You can always export the featureclass to a shapefile after you do some spatial and attribute cleanup.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 14 Sep 2019 04:25:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/esri-tutorials-questions/there-was-a-problem-drawing-the-shapefile-drawing/m-p/38805#M22 DanPatterson_Retired 2019-09-14T04:25:51Z