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Extent to xy coordinate- arcpy

Yaron_YosefCohen — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:10:42 GMT

Hellow

i try to extent to xy coordinate with arcpy? i using this code:

import arcpy, os, sys from arcpy import env env.workspace = r"C:\Project" pnt = '178434 ,662446' for mxdname in arcpy.ListFiles("*.mxd"): print mxdname mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\\" + mxdname) df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0] df.extent = pnt print 'extent' mxd.save() del mxd

but i get en error: ValueError: Invalid string value for Extent argument

any help would be great

Re: Extent to xy coordinate- arcpy

AnthonyGiles — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:27:33 GMT

Your extent needs to be a rectangle so you would need to find out the width and height of your data frame to be able to create an AOI from your point, i.e. if your point is the bottom left corner:

xmapdistance = df.extent.XMax - df.extent.XMin

ymapdistance = df.extent.YMax - df.extent.YMin

extentxmin = 178434

extentxmax = 178434 + xmapdistance

extentymax = 662446

extentymin = 662446 + ymapdistance

df.panToExtent(arcpy.Extent(extentxmin,extentymax,extentxmin,extentymax))