topic Re: How do I add a new feature to an existing featureclass in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463017#M36265 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You could play with the arcpy.da.editor <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/editor.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/editor.htm">Editor—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>or just the da.insertcursor option <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/insertcursor-class.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/insertcursor-class.htm">InsertCursor—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>depends on what you want to do, there are other options depending on where you data are (aka merge)</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 01:01:17 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2016-07-28T01:01:17Z How do I add a new feature to an existing featureclass https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463016#M36264 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />I do a lot of selecting and updating, but I just want to write a new feature (add a row) based on values from another feature class</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:25:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463016#M36264 LeeNeher1 2016-07-28T00:25:43Z Re: How do I add a new feature to an existing featureclass https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463017#M36265 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You could play with the arcpy.da.editor <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/editor.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/editor.htm">Editor—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>or just the da.insertcursor option <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/insertcursor-class.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/arcpy-data-access/insertcursor-class.htm">InsertCursor—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A> </P><P>depends on what you want to do, there are other options depending on where you data are (aka merge)</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 01:01:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463017#M36265 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-07-28T01:01:17Z Re: How do I add a new feature to an existing featureclass https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463018#M36266 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks, I am working with big (4-6gb) feature classes and a simple load in ArcCatalog fails.&nbsp;&nbsp; I will check out insertCursor.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 01:10:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463018#M36266 LeeNeher1 2016-07-28T01:10:44Z Re: How do I add a new feature to an existing featureclass https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463019#M36267 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Why does load fail? What is the error? It should work.</P><P>Are the input and target the same type / coord sys / attributes???</P><P>da.InsertCursor will also work, but that seems a long way around to do what the standard tools will do.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 08:27:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-feature-to-an-existing/m-p/463019#M36267 NeilAyres 2016-07-28T08:27:26Z