Latest Contributions by DanPatterson

You will have to maintain a geometry file which just contains the individual boundaries if that is paramount.  If you haven't done the dissolve yet, then you can get a statistical summary on an aggregated basis.  Is the aggregation based on ownership? crop type?  Any details would help ... View more

you put shape_length into a list so row will be a tuple.  did you try  row[0].getValue('Shape_Length') ... View more

shared boundaries will be removed if dissolving or aggregation by an attribute. Perhaps you could explain why you want to make multipart shapes?   If you have a need to simplify a data structure to minimize duplication of attributes, you can simply keep your attributes separate and use a join when you need to bring attributes back to the geometry ... View more

probably running out of memory and everything is getting swapped out to disk. Turn on your windows system monitoring and monitor your memory usage and disk activity ... View more

It may be what is needed to run and initialize pycharm.  For instance, when using Spyder, an initializing script is created when it is installed and used (see below).  Check your folder structure to see if there is some *.py script with pycharm's name in it. arcpy.Usage does work in Spyder and ArcGIS Pro's notebooks C:\Install_folder\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\pythonw.exe "C:\Install_folder\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Scripts\spyder-script.py" ... View more

Joe ...‌ just check Janata's links and all is good. Edge browser, windows 10 on my shiny new Surface Book 3 ... View more

There are lots of resources out there.  The approach will depend on the software you have and what you are willing to tackle.  Generally a 3rd party package is recommended as indicated by Jayanta's post in this thread https://community.esri.com/thread/181628-how-to-do-flood-hazard-modeling-for-river-flash-floods-based-arc-gis-hec-modeling-platforms  ... View more

I noticed that you are not using the data access module. In theory, it shouldn't matter, but try da_desc = arcpy.da.Describe(r"...Your_Featureclass_here") print(da_desc['extent']) # ---- da.Describe uses a dictionary 300000 4999999.3145 300029.318 5000022.4949 NaN NaN NaN NaN‍‍‍‍‍ I got the same results using arcpy.Describe and arcpy.da.Describe, but you never know ... View more

Jeanette Harlow  From  Work with Microsoft Excel files in ArcGIS Pro—Excel | Documentation  under Limitations Excel tables are read-only in ArcGIS Pro; however, they can be edited in Excel while you have a worksheet open in the Contents pane (stand-alone table layer). The layer will only display the updated (saved) values for edits made outside of ArcGIS Pro when ArcGIS Pro has been closed and reopened. ... View more

Add and connect data and tools, and modify elements—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  Renaming elements The default names of tools and variables are automatically generated by ModelBuilder when you add the element. If the element name already exists in the model, it is appended with a unique number. To rename any model element to a unique name, right-click a model element and click Rename, type in a new name, and press Enter or click outside the rename box. Changing the name of a variable does not affect the contents, dataset, or value of the variable. For example, a variable references the value C:\Data\Example.gdb\Roads. Renaming the variable from Roads to Streets does not change the dataset path, only the variable name. There is lots more in that section ... View more

If you update python, you will break being able to work with _arcgisscripting and several other dlls.  You need to stick with python 3.6.x if you intend to use any arc* functionality. ... View more

What about the last 2 questions?  You can anonymize the paths without changing the first letter of each subfolder or the file name if needed ... View more

There are samples on GitHub arcgis-python-api/samples at master · Esri/arcgis-python-api · GitHub  and the api reference is here API Reference for the ArcGIS API for Python — arcgis 1.8.0 documentation  ... View more

Ever step should be a conscious decision.  For example, during projection of rasters in ArcGIS Pro, you need to understand and assess the affects of cell size amongst many things. How the Cell Size Projection Method environment setting works—Geoprocessing | Documentation  I would never recommend or advocate a methodology for "convenience" sake unless I had personally studied the ramifications of the alternatives with a variety of data sets.  So my answer, .... yes it definitely matters ... it will be up to you to decide what I exactly mean ... View more

Wish I could narrow down your problems... I just installed Spyder 4.1.3 in ArcGIS Pro Beta 1.  no clone, installed in the base environment using conda install spyder --no-pin.  I install in a simple path ( c:\ arc_pro ) and I have never had install problems. Admin of my machine, installed for myself (not all users). ... View more