Raster to Polygon within Model - inline variable error
I created a model to iterate through and process rasters and convert the desired value field to a polygon. The final model needs to be robust and very user friendly.
However, when I try to use an inline variable to put the polygon into a user defined temp geodatabase the tool will add ".shp" to the output file name. Unless it is pathed to a gdb in the model it will add the ".shp" But since the output is really a gdb, it causes an error during the run.
The problem:
I've been getting around this by making the polygon output into a parameter and changing the location myself each run. But then it's not exactly user friendly.
How I "fix" the problem:
How can I prevent the automatic addition of ".shp" on this step? And leave out my work-around solution so the eventual user only defines a temp gdb?
(None of the other steps have this issue with the inline variable)
Thanks
I suggest using the built in variable %scratchGDB% - guaranteed to exist and be writable, set the output of Raster To Polygon to be %scratchGDB%\xxtemp, and then then use Copy Features after that to copy the output of Raster To Polygon to an output feature class set as (output parameter). Model Builder
