Having problems getting data driven scale to work

[StacyStanton]

I am trying to use the data driven scale for a project I am working on and it does not seem to be working.  I am working on a Fire Department Box book and the data driven pages are set to be based on the box boundaries.  I added another column to the box boundary attribute table for the scale and put in what I wanted each page to be scaled at ex: 3600 or 4800 etc.  When I set the scale to be data driven and use that attribute it does not change the scale to what I set it for.  What am I doing wrong?

[StacyStanton]

I got the file from someone else, I believe it has always been a shape file, not from CAD or anything. It is projected when I look at it on my end.

Stacy L. Stanton

Administrative Assistant

Department of Public Works

Village of Churchville

Phone: 585-293-3366

Fax: 585-293-3693

[JamesFitzgerald]

I projected it to NAD_1983_StatePlane_New_York_Central. I am working on it now. I see what you are talking about. It doesn't seem to recognize the DD_Scale.

James

[StacyStanton]

I took a look at the projection and it was NAD1927 so I reprojected it as 1983 and it worked! Why didn’t I think of that?! Thank you so much!!!!

Stacy L. Stanton

Administrative Assistant

Department of Public Works

Village of Churchville

Phone: 585-293-3366

Fax: 585-293-3693

[JamesFitzgerald]

Hey,

I fixed your problem. I projected the shapefile.shp to NAD_1983_StatePlane_New_York_Central. I added a new field called "Scale" but but made the type 'Double' instead of 'Long Integer'. I populated the new field with your values for scale. I am not sure if it was the projection or the type but it works. Let me know if I can further assist. James

[JamesFitzgerald]

Hello Stacy,

Could you mark your post as helpful and correct?

Thanks

James

[StacyStanton]

Thanks again for all your help!

Stacy L. Stanton

Administrative Assistant

Department of Public Works

Village of Churchville

Phone: 585-293-3366

Fax: 585-293-3693