Latest Contributions by V_StuartFoote

Mustafa, That is correct, you have no license for that information and the material has always been password protected. It is proprietary, non-public domain material used by the Professional Services Water Resources team and HEC and Academic collaborators, in fee-based instruction on the use of the ArcHydro and HEC-GeoRAS, HEC-GeoHMS utilities. The extensions are well documented, and the classroom/seminar materials are not needed for general use. You'll find you don't need them. Stuart ... View more

Nothing is brewing! Best information is that the HEC has no immediate plans or requirement to support an ArcGIS 10 based preprocessor for HEC-RAS or HEC-HMS!  If you work with these tools in H&H Engineering you should plan to remain on an ArcGIS 9.3.1 platform! The HEC-GeoRAS and HEC-GeoHMS preprocessors are being maintained and refined for that environment. ESRI continues to develop ArcHydro against ArcGIS 10 as the extension stands alone as a useful geospatial and hydrologic modeling tool. The date stamped "readme" document is a running history of development within the collaborative project hosted for public use by ESRI's Professional Services folks. Stuart ... View more

Eric, See post #6 in this thread.  But here again are the credentials. Credentials:    ftp.esri.com    login: RiverHydraulics    passwd: river.1114 It is much easier to use an ftp utility like FileZilla as it is unwieldy to download in a Web browser. Grab and read the �??readmemmddyyyy.doc�?� file on the root. Then change down to the ArcHydro folder and the Setup10 for ArcHydro version 2.x which is still late stage beta and only applicable for ArcGIS 10. Stuart ... View more

@bdbacca, Everything you'll need is laid out in the ArcHydro forum, but in short you should obtain and use the latest development build from the ESRI maintained ftp site. Your ArcGIS 9.3 ArcEditor (Single Use) version will work fine for your study. Read through the forum and post back if you have any install questions. Stuart ... View more

Rob, No need to build/install from source. Pre-built binary installers for Python 2.5 and PyWin32 are on the ArcGIS install media. Poke around, you'll find both. Stuart ... View more

Chris, I think you're asking for trouble running with ArcGIS 9.3 SP1 (build 1850, refs) there have been subtle changes to Geodatabase in the ensuing releases. It sounds like the HEC GeoRAS 4.3.93 was the current build (4.3.1.31 from the ftp site?) since you got AppFramework 3.1.0.103 (build 20110107). So, only suggestion I can make would be to get an eval of ArcGIS 9.3.1 (or purchase) and apply SP2 (so you'd be working with build 4000)--and see if that resolves the Geodatabase issue. Stuart ... View more

Brent, When you set up the app on the license server, you may need to identify the host as 27000@localhost in the lmstat.bat file. Check to see if the ESRILicenseUse.txt file is being created by the batch, and that you are able to access it with your account. It is also conceivable that the .NET 1.1 framework components needed for the WHATLG GUI are not present on the license server. Or that there is a file permission issue as installed such that when run--either the app faults, or the ESRILicenseUse.txt file is unreadable. You might try installing to All Users\Shared Documents, or Program Files\Common to work around that. Same issues with .NET and file access on your PC. Stuart ... View more

Brent, Suspect that is still going to be a manifestation of delay in closing the ESRILicenseUse.txt during lmstat lmutil read of your license server.  The lmstat.bat file does need to be edited and new versions of lmutil.exe placed in the programs folder. See my earlier 19 Nov 2010 post in this thread for details and work around. Try the command line examples and time the exchanges with and without firewall, and with exceptions in place. Post back if you still have questions. Stuart ... View more

In addition to Bruce's response, please see this similar thread regards your question. http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/21617-Japanese-characters-in-attribut-table-not-showing-properly?p=70634#post70634 Stuart ... View more

Robin, No python scripting in ArcScan?  Maybe no problem. Think remote sensing of your raster scan or source document image. I have not tried it, but with a Spatial Analyst license, the included Image Classification has ArcPy modules for supervised classification. They would let you script to achieve the same things that ArcScan does with bimodal rasters.  You would probably have to do some training on your images. Maybe not all the bells and whistles--line weights, annotation breaks and such, but should be able to extract usable polygon features and then convert to polyline if needed. Also, both the ERDAS Imagine and ITT-Visual ENVI 3rd Party extensions to ArcGIS 10 allow you to script in Python--and they provide a richer set of tools for supervised and unsupervised classification and feature class extraction work flows/geoprocessing--probably effective replacements for ArcScan. Stuart ... View more

Tom, Simply put it is not ESRI's decision. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineering, Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) is not a commercial entity and their development work on all HEC related H&H software is not bound by business considerations--rather operational and configuration management tied to the needs to the Corps of Engineers. ArcHydro and the Water Resources Application Framework development, including HEC-GeoRAS/GeoHMS is a collaborative effort on the part of U.S. Governmental, Educational and ESRI Professional services. It continues apace with the needs and requirements of each participant. ESRI has proceeded with development of an ArcGIS 10 ArcHydro extension because it does make business sense. The HEC on the other hand does not yet require an ArcGIS 10 capability at this stage of the HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS projects. The ArcGIS 9.2/9.3 compliant GeoRAS 4.3/GeoHMS 4.2 and GeoHMS 5.0 developmental versions of the software are being maintained by this effort. ESRI is not the purveyor of HEC-GeoRAS/HEC-GeoHMS, simply a collaborative partner in its development. ESRI hosts, as a public service, access the "developmental" versions of the software. The HEC retains distribution and management of the "official" versions and provides configuration management and technical support for their internal USACE offices. I'd note that in reality, in an academic, corporate or governmental setting it is a simple matter to maintain ArcGIS 9.x and desired HEC GeoRAS or GeoHMS functionality by retaining seats of ArcGIS 9. ESRI's licensing structure facilitates this and their track record suggests they will continue to support prior versions indefinitely. There are other commercial purveyors of preprocessors for the HEC RAS/HMS modeling systems, Aquaveo for example, that have implemented ArcGIS 10 capable versions of their software. A route the HEC has no operational need to pursue--yet. Stuart ... View more

Cale, See if these ESRI Symbol Server references are helpful: [INDENT]For ArcGIS 9.3 [INDENT]http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/ArcGISDesktop/dotnet/37148c9a-1bd3-4a20-82f1-edc81f9c0347.htm[/INDENT] For ArcGIS 10 [INDENT]http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/conceptualhelp/index.html#//000100000127000000[/INDENT][/INDENT] Stuart ... View more

Oops... Looks to have been the wrong link pasted in. But, you can find the script Jeffrey referred to in the "20 script tools" from this Getting started with Python Map Automation post to the ArcGIS Desktop BLOG. Here is just the MultiMXDReport.py Python script extracted: # Author:  ESRI # Date:    July 5, 2010 # Version: ArcGIS 10.0 # Purpose: This script will iterate through each MXD in a folder and report information about each #          map document, it's data frames and layers.  The script is intended to run from a script #          tool that requires two input parameters: #               1) folder containing MXDs, #               2) an output text file. # #          The resulting text file will automatically open. import arcpy, datetime, os try:     arcpy.gp.overwriteOutput = True     #Read input parameters from GP dialog     folderPath = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)     output = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)     #Create an output file     outFile = open(output, "w")     #Report header     outFile.write("MXD REPORT: \n")     outFile.write("\n")     outFile.write("This report is for all MXDs in a folder.  It lists relevant information about\n")     outFile.write("map document properties, data frame, layer, and table information for each MXD\n")     outFile.write("in a system folder\n")     outFile.write("\n")     outFile.write("Date: " + str(datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%B %d, %Y")) + "\n")     #Loop through each MXD file     count = 0     for filename in os.listdir(folderPath):         fullpath = os.path.join(folderPath, filename)         if os.path.isfile(fullpath):             if filename.lower().endswith(".mxd"):                 #Reference MXD                 mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(fullpath)                 count = 1                 #Format output value                 if mxd.author =="": authorValue = "None"                 else: authorValue = mxd.author                 if mxd.summary =="": summaryValue = "None"                 else: summaryValue = mxd.summary                 BDS = arcpy.mapping.ListBrokenDataSources(mxd)                 if len(BDS) == 0: BDSValue = "None"                 else: BDSValue = "A total of " + str(len(BDS)) + " broken data source(s)."                                 #Write MXD data to file                 outFile.write("\n")                 outFile.write("\n")                 outFile.write("------------------------------------------------------------------- \n")                 outFile.write("MAPDOCUMENT: " + os.path.basename(mxd.filePath) + "\n")                 outFile.write("------------------------------------------------------------------- \n")                 outFile.write("\n")                 outFile.write("\t Path:                 " + mxd.filePath + "\n")                 outFile.write("\t Last Saved:           " + str(mxd.dateSaved) + "\n")                 outFile.write("\t Author:               " + authorValue + "\n")                 outFile.write("\t Summary:              " + summaryValue + "\n")                 outFile.write("\t Relative Paths:       " + str(mxd.relativePaths) + "\n")                 outFile.write("\t Broken Data Sources:  " + BDSValue + "\n")                 #Reference each data frame and report data                 DFList = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)                 for df in DFList:                     #Format output values                     if df.description == "": descValue = "None"                     else: descValue = df.description                     #Write data frame data to file                     outFile.write("\n")                     outFile.write("\n")                     outFile.write("\t DATA FRAME: " + df.name + "\n")                     outFile.write("\n")                     outFile.write("\t\t Description:        " + descValue + "\n")                     outFile.write("\t\t Spatial Reference:  " + df.spatialReference.name + "\n")                     outFile.write("\t\t Transformation(s):  " + str(df.geographicTransformations) + "\n")                     outFile.write("\t\t Map Units:          " + df.mapUnits + "\n")                     try:                         outFile.write("\t\t Scale:              " + str(df.scale) + "\n")                     except:                         outFile.write("\t\t Scale:              Unknown \n")                     outFile.write("\t\t Rotation:           " + str(df.rotation) + "\n")                                       #Reference each layer in a data frame                     lyrList = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "", df)                     for lyr in lyrList:                         outFile.write("\n")                         outFile.write("\t\t LAYER: " + lyr.name + "\n")                         outFile.write("\t\t\t Group Layer Path:  " + lyr.longName + "\n")                         if lyr.supports("dataSource"):                             outFile.write("\t\t\t Data Source:       " + lyr.dataSource + "\n")                             try:                                 outFile.write("\t\t\t Dataset type:      " + arcpy.Describe(lyr.dataSource).datasettype + "\n")                             except:                                 outFile.write("\t\t\t Dataset type:     Unknown (could be a broken data source) \n")                         else: outFile.write("\t\t\t Data Source:       N/A \n")                         if lyr.supports("definitionQuery"):                             if lyr.definitionQuery == "":                                 outFile.write("\t\t\t Query Definition:  None \n" )                             else: outFile.write("\t\t\t Query Definition:  " + lyr.definitionQuery + "\n")                         else: outFile.write("\t\t\t Query Definition:  N/A \n")                                             #Reference each table in a data frame                     tableList = arcpy.mapping.ListTableViews(mxd, df, "")                     for table in tableList:                         outFile.write("\n")                         outFile.write("\n")                         outFile.write("\t\t TABLEVIEW: " + table.name + "\n")                         outFile.write("\n")                         outFile.write("\t\t\t Data Source:           " + table.dataSource + "\n")                         if table.definitionQuery == "":                             outFile.write("\t\t\t Query Definition:      None \n")                         else: outFile.write("\t\t\t Query Definition:      " + table.definitionQuery + "\n")                 del mxd                 if count ==0:         outFile.write("\n")         outFile.write("\n")         outFile.write("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n")         outFile.write("                            NO MXD FILES FOUND \n")         outFile.write("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n")                              outFile.close()     #Open resulting text file     os.startfile(output)     #Delete variables that reference data on disk     del folderPath, output, outFile, fullpath except Exception, e:   import traceback   map(arcpy.AddError, traceback.format_exc().split("\n"))   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Omer, You are not configured to also use a 64-bit Python build are you? The 64-bit Python would not work with the ArcPy site library from ArcGIS 10. Or, did you install ArcGIS 10 or SP1, from a command line with msiexec? If so, check the location of your Python26 install, it defaults to the root of the hard drive with the most space. A couple of ways to adjust things if so. This forum thread has some details. [INDENT]http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/18034-Problem-with-ArcToolbox-Scripts-after-installing-10-SP1-on-Windows-7-64-Bit?p=58249#post58249[/INDENT] Stuart ... View more

Nathan, ArcHydro is pretty much fully functional for ArcGIS 10, ver 2.0.0.80 was built Dec 22, 2010 and posted to the Water Resources ftp site, and it bundles AppFramework ver 4.0.0.22. The embedded Help and Tutorial were updated Nov 15, 2010. But, as has been well publicized the HEC GeoRAS and GeoHMS will not be updated in the near term for ArcGIS 10. So if your needs center on preprocessing support for HEC RAS or HMS, you'll need to stay with ArcGIS 9.3 Stuart ... View more