Latest Contributions by TimHodson

Hi Anne, You should be able to use the Delete Fabric Records Add-in to do that: http://arcg.is/2a3SWON -Tim ... View more

Hi Anna, the spiral is typically used to transition from one circular arc to another, or else to transition from a straight line into a circular arc, or from circular arc into a straight line. So the snippet of the legal description you have above is, on its own, not enough information. To use the spiral tool you'd need to use the information from the prior and subsequent calls, and get the radii from each of those. If one of the prior or subsequent calls is a straight line, then you'd use the "INFINITY" string for that particular side. -Tim ... View more

Hi Mike, thank you for reporting this, and for including the screen-shots. Using the information that you've provided I was able to replicate the error message. A work-around is to set your map properties to a projection. I did a quick test and confirmed that once the map is projecting on the fly from the geographic coordinate system of the stored data into a projection, then the Divide works as expected: -Tim ... View more

Hi Tyler, you'd see this behavior if you are using the Line tool on the feature template instead of using the Two-Point line tool. When using the Two-point line, then a single line feature is created each time, and then if the target is a COGO-Enabled feature class, the Direction and Distance values will be added as COGO attributes. For the next Pro release an enhancement will be available on the two-point line tool that, when activated, will automatically continue the two-point line so that you would have the behavior you are looking for. With Pro 2.3 you currently need to click the start point of the sketch each time before you use Direction/Distance. -Tim ... View more

Hi Jeremy, after running the Simplify By Straight Lines and Circular Arcs, you should be able to check to see if the geometry was actually converted to circular arcs by bringing it into an edit sketch. If the resulting geometry has more than one connected circular arc and/or straight line per single feature, then that would be one explanation for the message that you see in ArcMap 10.6.1 Update COGO Attributes tool. If this is the case, then you would need to run the Split Line at Vertices GP tool after running the Simplify By ...Circular Arcs tool, to get individual features for the circular arc segments. -Tim ... View more

Hi Ben, The Ground to Grid correction functionality is new and was released with ArcGIS Pro 2.3. To learn about the other new editing functionality see the What's New in ArcGIS Pro 2.3 document in the Data Management section under the sub-heading Edit Data. -Tim ... View more

Great! Thank you Margaret for the feedback. I'm glad to hear that it's all now working as you're expecting it to. ... View more

Hi Margaret, I'm glad that this worked for you. Note, however, that the default pixel-based snapping should also work for this. If you switch back to pixel based snapping does the problem you reported come back? When you encountered the problem previously, was the point-snapping button, highlighted in yellow in the image above, turned on? If pixel-based snapping does not work for you then please let me know, as I'd like to do some follow up. As an aside: the downside of using map units for tool snapping is that it becomes hard to use when working at different map scales; you zoom out and the snap tolerance does not seem enough, and when you zoom in the snap tolerance is too much. I personally always use pixel-based snapping. -Tim ... View more

Hi Margaret, snapping should definitely work; the Interactive Correction tools are designed to be able to snap to your control points. One possible reason that you are not seeing snapping to points is that even though you have snapping turned on, you may not have configured the snapping environment to snap to point features? Please let me know if this does not resolve the problem for you. ... View more

The ability to apply Ground to Grid corrections will become available soon, with the release of ArcGIS Pro 2.3. -Tim ... View more

The Stated Area field on the Parcel Fabric parcels is calculated from the Direction and Distance attributes that form the parcel boundaries. The Stated Area and the shape_area will be different in scenarios where the parcel shape has been altered by the change in position of fabric points. Fabric point position changes do not ever automatically change direction and distance attributes. So this means that changes in the fabric point locations also do not alter the Stated Area. Some examples of how fabric points can move include: Joining and/or re-joining parcels using (doc) Fabric Adjustment (doc) Transform Parcels toolbar (doc) Fabric Point Move To Feature Add-in It is also possible that the Direction and Distance attributes do not mathematically close back onto the starting point, resulting in a misclosure error. The Stated Area is calculated based on the "measurement based" polygon that results AFTER the misclose is adjusted by Compass Rule. You can see this representation of the parcel by using the Measurement view. (doc - section called "Open parcels using dimensions instead of shape") The Stated Area is also sometimes called the Record Area because it is calculated from direction and distance records. ... View more

Hi Jeff, You may have already seen a hint of forthcoming support for spirals in ArcGIS Pro; when you COGO-enable a lines feature class, you will notice that there is a Radius2 field.   The 10.x ArcGIS support for spirals is available only via the SDK. There is a recent addition (yesterday) to the Parcel Edit Helper Add-In that allows you to create a spiral as part of the Edit Sketch. The add-in is here (10.4 and higher): http://arcg.is/2fXvAO8 That same add-in allows the edit sketch to be turned into a parcel in the fabric. Note that this particular add-in is only supported as SDK product; the functionality you see is used as a set of examples by developers for customizing the parcel fabric editing experience. However, if there are bugs or issues that you encounter while using the add-in, please report them anyway, at the GitHub location, where you can also find the code: https://github.com/Esri/parcel-fabric-desktop-addins/commits/master/WorkflowUtilities/ParcelEditHelpers/AddIn_ParcelEditHelpers/SourceCode   When a spiral is created the resulting polyline is a series of straight segments that approximate a spiral. However the end point of that polyline is accurately computed, regardless of how the polyline was densified (there are 3 different methods of densifying the spiral.)   Since spirals are often used as a tangent into, or a tangent out of, a circular arc or straight line, the Spiral add-in is designed to capture the exit tangent of the computed spiral and constrain the sketch bearing to the tangent of the last spiral created. Some care should be taken not to use Tangent Curve command after a spiral is constructed because that tangency would be based on the last segment of the polyline approximation of the spiral rather than the true tangent of the spiral itself. Therefore, for the true tangent, accept the sketch constraint that gets set after clicking Create on the Spiral dialog.   Example; when constructing a series of courses in the sequence: straight line, spiral, transition curve, spiral, straight line, proceed as follows: Create straight line with edit sketch using any of the normal methods Right-click to get Edit Sketch context menu, click Deflection, enter 0° for deflection to constrain the sketch rubber-banding to a tangent bearing Right-click, Spiral, accept the given bearing in the first entry of the dialog, and enter the other parameters for the spiral, click Create. The spiral is created and the sketch is constrained to tangent exit bearing from the mathematically computed spiral, and is different to the tangent that would be calculated off the last segment. Right-click, Spiral, accept the given bearing in the first entry of the dialog, and enter parameters of the circular arc by entering the same radius value for Start Radius and End Radius; a tangent circular arc is created. Keep the tangent direction constraint rubber-banding from the circular arc, or since the circular arc is a true parametric geometry, it would also be OK at this point to hit Esc key to free the constraint and then use the Deflection = 0° to reset it; the result should be the same tangent. Enter the distance for the straight line. Finish Sketch/ finish Part, add another segment, etc. Jonathan McDowell‌ - including Jon, as he has written a similar tool for the ORMAP group. Thanks, -Tim ... View more