topic Re: 'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class in Mapping Questions

'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class

BenVan_Kesteren1 — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 22:39:48 GMT

Hi All,

I have a polygon feature class of properties in our local city, and if I zoom to extents on this particular feature class it zooms right out to the never never, so I am assuming I have some rogue parcel of land drawn in.

So I thought that if I select ALL parcels in my local city, open attribute table, and then invert my selection, it should show me the trouble parcel, but it does not show any selections at all... I am stumped as to how to clean this up.

Anyone got any tips?

This is where I would expect it to zoom extents:

This is what actually happens:

Re: 'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:42:19 GMT

You have some bad geometry... run the Repair Geometry tool Repair Geometry—Help | ArcGIS Desktop

There is a Check Geometry tool if you want to just check it

Re: 'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class

BenVan_Kesteren1 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:50:20 GMT

Hi Dan,

Just running that tool I get this error:

ERROR 000314: Database Connections\GISADMIN@SDE_Spatial@SDE-DB.sde\SDE_SPATIAL.GISADMIN.Cadastre\SDE_SPATIAL.GISADMIN.land_parcels_active_region is not a Shapefile or a feature class in a Personal or File Geodatabase.

I did fail to mention this is within our Enterprise GDB.

I am thinking all I would have to do is export this FC to a FileGDB, then run the tool then re-import into the SDE. Do you think this may work?

Cheers

-Ben

Re: 'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:58:21 GMT

Ben... I only work local and don't do the SDE thing, but it can't hurt to see if that is the issue since you won't be harming the source

Re: 'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class

JayantaPoddar — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 02:27:36 GMT

Go to ArcCatalog > Right-click the feature-class > Properties > Feature Extent (tab) > Click "Recalculate". Any change in the extent?

Re: 'Zoom Extents' zooms to infinity on Polygon Feature Class

BenVan_Kesteren1 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 04:07:46 GMT

That is interesting, it does indeed update the Min X and Min Y values accordingly. (this dataset is currently locked, so I couldn't save the changes), but it looks like it will do the trick.

In response to Dan Patterson‌ I have exported the data to a shapefile, and have run the check geometry tool and it has found 12 errors to repair. So when I get a chance I will run the Repair Geometry tool to resolve these issues also!

Thanks for your comments.