Latest Contributions by deleted-user-1_r2dgYuILKY

I'm performing a grid analysis using a tessellation, 30 sq ft grid squares over a room in a building. I want to rotate the grid to line up with the geographic angle of the room on the map. I need to automate this process for over 10000 rooms. Since I can only manually rotate polygons (why is there not a tool for this?) I'm converting the grid to raster, rotating that to the room angle, and reconverting the rotated raster back to a polygon. The problem I'm having is that the raster cells become distorted when rotated. I'm trying to count the number of 30 foot squares are completely within the room and this distortion is throwing off the accuracy of the count because it's missing squares that would likely fit into the room along the top (see screenshots).  I started this analysis a couple of months ago, and I'm just noticing this issue after upgrading to Pro 2.3. When I originally ran the analysis, this particular room had 15 squares completely within. Now it has twelve due to the cell distortion.  This happens whether I run the process in Python 3, or if I do the steps manually in Pro.  Tessellation to raster: Raster rotate: Raster to polygon: Three more of these squares were counted before the cell distortion ... View more

Today I upgraded to ArcGIS Pro 2.3. I opened an aprx file with a map series. Every data link is broken* and all the map series pages and layer definition queries are gone. WTF!?!?  *we have a drive with two separate top-level folders "PROJECTS" and "DATA." The file paths all say "M:\PROJECTS\DATA\..." after the upgrade. Luckily, this project was from an imported MXD, so I can start over without too much hassle. Still, this ain't good! ... View more

I'm new to Arcade. I'm trying to summarize square footage for rooms of a certain classification (containing the prefix 'CR_') in a Map Series using dynamic text. The expression builder says my Arcade expression is valid, but nothing is being printed to the dynamic text box.  ... View more

I have a map series of 225 site floor plans. I want to be able to display total square footage summed by room type with dynamic text. I'm able to accomplish this with a custom SQL query. The problem is, I need the site name specified in the query, and I need that to change for whatever page of the map series that I'm on. As it stands, I can choose either "custom query" or "map series rows" in the insert table statistic query dropdown. Is there any way to pass the page name (site name in this case) into the custom query? Could this kind of functionality be added to a future update of Pro? ... View more

I'm doing a grid based analysis for functional room capacity, trying to verify out how many 30 square foot blocks will fit comfortably in a room. I'm confirming this visually and against numbers generated in Excel by an architect. It works very well using the Select features by location tool within a distance of -3 feet from the polygon edge in generally rectangular rooms. However, I have to change this threshold to around -6 feet before it starts to make sense in awkwardly shaped rooms. I need to apply the same methodology to thousands of rooms, so I need the threshold to be a variable. Is there a programmatic way to identify irregularly shaped polygons? Should I look at Calculate Metrics from the Topographic Production Tools? I think my organization might have a license for this.  ... View more