Latest Contributions by curtvprice

Kind of an interesting puzzle! Maybe you could explain your use case (that is, what are you trying to accomplish). I am curious! Here is a way to create a circular buffer, centered on the centroid of the polygon, of a specified total area outside your source polygon. Watch your units, if you are using Shape_Area everything should be in map units or square map units (ie feet, meters). 1. Add a field of type Double to your polygon feature class. (xarea) 2. Calculate this field to the area plus your desired buffer area 3. Calculate the radius of a circle for this area, the Python expression would be (math.pi / xarea) ** 0.5 4. Convert your polygons to points with the Feature To Point tool.  5. Buffer these points using the calculated radius value. ... View more

Perhaps you could post a screen shot of your model? ... View more

You could create a text string variable, set it as a parameter, and in the Model Options parameters, use a filter to create the list of choices. Then use the Calculate Value tool to convert that string to a SQL expression, like this: "YEAR >= {} AND YEAR <= {}".format("%Year Range%"[0:4], "%Year Range%"[5:])‍‍ The above expression would yield for your first choice "1967-1971": YEAR >= 1967 AND YEAR <= 1971‍‍ ... View more

To avoid this issue mid-year, I have a script set up that installs the software and turns off user notifications of updates. This limits the damage of students getting a version ahead of the version I am teaching from each term. Then I update Pro to the current version every fall, and have students reinstall to get up to date to 'this year's version'.   ArcGIS Pro silent install script‌ ... View more

The reason Esri has not supported this is because users expect all tables to support such a tool - not just shapefile and gdb. Esri supports many database formats and client server setups. XTools Pro has a nice Table Restructure tool that works on file-based data. ... View more

 think what Jamal, myself, and others want to see is more simple; at the very least we just want to see that aprx in the tree just like we see every other Arc/GIS related file. From there we can open the project (in a new project window no doubt) instead of navigating windows explorer. I totally agree. Like in ArcMap where you see an MXD and you open it from the catalog, closing the current mxd. Do the same thing with aprx files and projects. ... View more

I am wondering if your Windows file associations are broken. File associations are stored in the wonky registry table Windows uses to connect file extensions to applications. Here's what I see when I open an command prompt (ArcGIS 10.7) and check to see what pitemx is associated with: C:\Users\cprice>assoc .pitemx .pitemx=ArcGISPItemXFile‍‍‍‍‍‍ If the associations are broken, the best fix is to do a repair install of ArcGIS, as the installer will reset file associations to what they should be for your application. Of course the system breaks down when two apps want to use the same file extension, but that's Windows! ... View more

I wish I could give a correct answer to several people for their help along the way, #meta This thread is another of those geonet success stories where you not only get the answer to do this thing, you also get some useful background in the thread. I think you tagged the right one and in the right way!  Helpfuls are thanks enough and are also very useful to me when I read a thread as they 'underline' the most useful information to learn in a thread, when one wants to learn why the correct answer solved the problem! ... View more

What's the difference if I save a featureclass in a folder or save it in a FileGeodatabase? I have been saving data to folders all the time. Hope that doesn't affect my yield data. Datasets saved to a folder from ArcGIS tool output are saved in shapefile (feature classes) and .dbf table format. Geoprocessing considerations for shapefile output—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  Geoprocessing considerations for shapefile output—Appendices | ArcGIS Desktop   (Pro) ... View more

You may want to reset your application profile. I'm wondering if your working area where these things are unpacked is full. Resetting your ArcGIS application profile‌ ... View more

I don't understand, you said the ascii file was in UTM and then you used Define Projection to set it to State Plane. If the asc file is in UTM you should use Define Projection to set it to UTM. Note Define Projection does not change any projections, it just tells ArcGIS what the xy locations are. A really good book that explains all this is Lining Up Data by Margaret Maher. I highly recommend this inexpensive book to my students, and even require it for my geodatabases class. ... View more

Dan, I don't think this will make any difference. Note that in 2.7 print() works just fine without the from __future__ import... I always use it now in my ArcMap code so my scripts will run in both - of course the OPs script can't run in both because is uses ArcMap arcpy methods. William, it looks to me from your error message that the PATH environment is causing the Pro site.py to get executed when Python 2.7 starts up.  The way to fix this is to make sure the shell you start with Popen has a PATH environment that doesn't include the Pro folders. This is done using the env parameter to Popen. ... View more

Good news, sometime in the last few years it got added in as the referenceScale property on the Map object Map—ArcPy | ArcGIS Desktop  ... View more

Eric, You have MAX_GRIDCODE in a one-row table (output of Summary Statistics I am guessing) and you want to populate it for the all rows in another table with this value, correct? Instead of doing a join, extract the value out to a model variable using the Get Field Value tool and use the resulting variable in an expression in the Calculate Field tool to populate that field for the entire table. ... View more