In our professional drawing office and many other internationally we have to add "clouds" around parts of the map or alignment sheet which have been revised or updated. Clouds seem to be the excepted standard accepted by engineers globally
I know in AutoCAD they just have a pen tool with which can draw a "cloud" around anything. In ArcMap it is a nightmare and if you use the freehand graphic tool they look awful and copying and pasting in images is not ideal especially when it come to unusual shapes. ArcGIS needs this tool. Eg.
Thanks Michael, this worked! I unfortunately only have the basic license so instead of being able to use the "densify" command and "polygon to polyline tool", I had to improvise by exporting the shape to Auto Cad.
Brilliant John. I hadn't thought of this before I can will create the Clouds in Autocad then export them back into ArcMAP.
Eventually ESRI should have a solution to this. ArcMAP is a little awkward to use for creating Engineering Prints. However most of the issues are basic and would be easy to solve with a bit of development.
mdmejac,
I too have only a basic licence. An Standard Licence doesn't have enough benefit for user like me.
If you print to PDF (Pro version), you can use the cloud tool to make the cloud. Then if you have to edit the map just replace the old map pages with the new map page using the replace tool and the clouds will remain.
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