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11-25-2020 02:35 PM
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NicoleWeston
Occasional Contributor

Hello!

I am currently working on a digitization project at a very large scale. I'm digitizing bricks of a memorial using a 1 inch resolution image. 

I've found the easiest way to do this is to create large polygons containing many bricks, then use the split tool to cut out the individual bricks within the larger polygon. 

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Here, you can see that I have snapping on, so I'm splitting the bricks out by snapping to either a side of an existing polygon or a vertex.

After splitting, here is what happens to the vertices. 

NicoleWeston_1-1606343464283.png

This is where I snapped to an existing brick vertex at the end to split the larger polygon. 

My question is--why are these vertices shifting? I'm finding myself needing to manually snap each new vertex to the brick polygons I already created so that there aren't spaces between polygons. Is this due to the scale? Is there some setting I'm missing? I don't want miniscule gaps between all of my polygons. Is there another way I could complete this project easily without this issue?

Thanks!

 

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Scott_Harris
Esri Regular Contributor

@andreamangeruca I sent you a direct message.

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ChristyChristensen
Emerging Contributor

Scott, do you know the status of this?

 

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Scott_Harris
Esri Regular Contributor

Hi @ChristyChristensen Here is the page that has the status: https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/the-split-tool-causes-a-shift-in-vertices-and-polylines-bug-00016...

This page has the definitions of each status https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug-enhancement-request-status

The good thing is we haven't seen any cases where the bug wasn't just a visual overlap/gap at scales beyond 1:1. In all the cases reported to us the vertices aren't moving more than the XY tolerance of the dataset. One suggestion is to use a topology with the same tolerance as the data and validate it -  no rules are needed since there is always one implied rule of 'Must Be Larger Than Cluster tolerance'.

If you are experiencing gaps overlaps that are larger than the XY tolerance of the data, then please reach out to Esri Technical Support because that would not fall under this bug.

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KenHo_CL
New Contributor

Hi Scott,

Just dropping in to say the Split By Feature is a workaround that still works for this bug, as of ArcGIS Pro Version 3.5.2.

Hopefully the bug will be addressed soon.

Thanks,

Ken

ChristyChristensen
Emerging Contributor

Ken - Super appreciate your workaround solution to Split By Feature which does work for us.   I am hoping ESRI gets this fixed soon as I don't want to have to always create a temporary layer to draw in, in order to split another layer.    It's extra work for staff having to draw something in one layer to use that to cut another layer accurately.   It's also confusing as the split tool used to work.    

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ChristyChristensen
Emerging Contributor

This looks like an issue back to 2020.   Since it's been 5 years, does ESRI have a timeline as to when this BUG will be addressed?   

 

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