served the purpose well for me... thank You Emily🙂
I notice that the help for this tool in both 9.3 and 10.1 says:
When using ArcMap, you also have the ability to use the selected features as the clipping extent.
But the 10.1 help goes on to say:
If a feature within the feature class is selected and Selection Extent is checked (clipping_geometry is set to ClippingGeometry), then the output clips out the areas that are selected. If a feature within the feature class is selected but Selection Extent is not checked, then the output clips out the minimum bounding rectangle for that feature.
I don't see in your model where the significant polygon is selected.
It seems that even if there is only one polygon in the fc,
you need to select it to get the behavior you want.
Emily,
did you try and use this tool instead of clip? Let me know if that worked.
Tim
I notice that the help for this tool in both 9.3 and 10.1 says:
When using ArcMap, you also have the ability to use the selected features as the clipping extent.
But the 10.1 help goes on to say:
If a feature within the feature class is selected and Selection Extent is checked (clipping_geometry is set to ClippingGeometry), then the output clips out the areas that are selected. If a feature within the feature class is selected but Selection Extent is not checked, then the output clips out the minimum bounding rectangle for that feature.
I don't see in your model where the significant polygon is selected.
It seems that even if there is only one polygon in the fc,
you need to select it to get the behavior you want.
Beaver15 is a feature class.
You are not selecting a feature by using it as the output extent.
It may contain only one feature, but the feature class is not what you need to select to get the behavior you want.
Make a layer of Beaver15 -> [Make Feature Layer (Data Management)]
and then
select a feature in Beaver15 -> [Select Layer By Attribute (Data Management)]
and then pass that layer-with-a-selection to the clip tool as the in_template_dataset
instead of the whole feature class....