Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

Your looking for the Export to CAD tool. This will create one or more CAD drawing files based on the values contained in one or more input feature classes or feature layers and supporting tables. Also look at the Add CAD Fields command to prepare your FC for output. Output formats supported included DGN (V8 Microstation), DWG (version 2013), or DXF (version 2013). If you already have a target drawing you will want to add the GIS data to, consider using the existing drawing as your 'seed' file. This is available with Basic, Standard and Advanced licenses. Rich ... View more

Kory, When you have a ETA when this will be released (e.g., as a patch or with 10.6.2) please stop by here and complete this thread :-). Rich ... View more

Good to hear this is being worked. In regards to the recommended workaround using the Multiple Ring Buffer tool.  Tool Name:   Multiple Ring Buffer  Source Name: MultiRingBuffer.py In the source on line 44 it refers to: outside_polygons = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(6) yet that parameter is not defined in the Proximity toolbox | Multiple Ring Buffer tools properties window. By adding this to the window I was able to get the Full and outside options to work for the tool. A limitation of that tool that prevents direct use to replace the wizard is that it does not auto-add the results to the map (easy to address by adding a 7th paramater) and does not work with graphics as input. This could be done as well by building a new model and adding a graphic->fc step in front of the model and a back to graphics with a fc->graphic step at the end. I now have the code on-hand to custom code all this into a new model, but we should not have to... I think ESRI should create a patch for this one since it addresses a previously working tool that was broken with a new release. v/r, Rich ... View more

I agree, we use the buffer wizard in several custom applications and its failure in 10.6.0 and 10.6.1 is one reason we have not upgraded from ArcGIS Desktop 10.5.1. The EOL would make sense if that was what ESRI is claiming, but they have EOL for 10.5.1 at December 1, 2022 and extended support for 10.6.1 does not start until January 2020. In other words they are responsible for at least 18 months (if not 4 years) to get this fixed. The failure to fix a known and easy to track bug says a lot about their support model and failure to keep their promises to their customers...What would Jack say if you told him you can't even do a buffer in ArcMap without knowing python? Instead of posting here, every person with the problem needs to report the Bug...if you can figure out how to ;-).  ... View more

Was this brought up at the UC by anyone? Failing to maintain simple commands such as Buffer in ArcMap is not acceptable at any level -especially since it works at 10.5.1 so it is a coding issue on their end not an OS issue. ... View more

Now on to the next question, will there be a ArcGIS 10.6.1 (Service Pack 1) that fixes this issue? ... View more

Since you are already using a Model I would just create a Python script 'model' to add to the end that does the date check and returns a boolean. In your model check the return value, if true End, otherwise loop to the beginning of your model (or reschedule the model to execute at future time). The script would be along the lines of:#python. ____ import sys import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() theCurrentDate =  now.strftime('%y/%m/%d') //** example of string format to send in =  '2018/06/30'    **// theEndDate = datetime.strftime(sys.argv[1], '%y/%m/%d') if theCurrentDate > theEndDate:    return true return false ___________ Rich ... View more

One of our end users resolved their 'folders not displaying' issue by reinstalling their Microsoft Windows 10 OS Build 1709. After the reinstallation of the OS and reinstall of ArcGIS Pro the folders were visible again. This is a WAG, but I think Windows Update is setting the S attributed during the Windows OS upgrade (i.e., for Build 1709) on user profiles and files. If the upgrade does not complete without error or the system is not rebooted, the next time a user logs in the OS will have 'delayed' reboots. Thus when you start working the attributes on your files may not have been reset to their pre-upgrade settings (see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-files/windows-10-file-attributes/862c70df-5fcd-4633-ba4e-652a3bb5bbd9). This is of potential concern since with Windows 10 we can expect a major OS upgrade every 4 to 6 months, in the past it was something that you had to deal with once every two or three years. Rich ... View more

Kory, They must not be trying that hard ☺; just use the attrib command in DOS and change the a folder attribute to System. After that the folder will not appear in Pro the next time you try to navigate to it with Add Data. If Pro is open you have to hit F5 in the Add Data Window to reread the folder structure from disk. The issue with the .gen files, folders with index documents (created by Pro) not appearing, etc. is documented in this thread. It appears Pro is using a ‘magic’ list of files/file extensions to determine if it will display a folder (and subfolders) in Add Data. As I recall there used to be a setting in Advanced Settings (in 32 bit Desktop) where you could control some of this behavior. The intent in the past was to reduce the number of folders shown to the user to ‘just’ folders with valid GIS data –which is why Add Data is rarely identical to a Windows File Explorer view. The primary problem is that for some file extensions, entire folder trees are not being displayed. For example, if I have this structure: .\ document .\ document\projects .\ document\projects\mydata .\ document\projects\mydata\index .\ document\projects\mydata\index\segments.gen When the .gen file is encountered the index folder is not displayed in Add Data, so I just see the following: .\ document .\ document\projects .\ document\projects\mydata This may be the intended behavior, if so the list of reserved folder and file names needs to be documented and easily found in ArcGIS Pro help. Sincerely, Richard Daniels GIS Product Support Coordinator & CAFM/IRIS Support ITD, WSDOT ... View more

We need to remember that the Add Data window in Pro is designed only to show 'valid' data that can be added to ArcGIS Pro. If we have a arc.adf file in a folder we are in a ArcInfo Info (database) directory while segments.gen indicates a folder holding Indexing information -that looks to be created by Python Add-Ins. Apparently Pro is using the existence of these key files to indicate the 'type' of folder (e.g., is it a File Geodatabase or a regular file folder?) when deciding to display (or not) them in the Add Data window. It would be interesting to see a list of these 'key' files for reference...when this is combined with the folder attribute issue (System or Hidden) and changes to user profile permissions (e.g., caused by Windows 10 group policy) troubleshooting can become quite interesting. Rich 🙂 ... View more

Still seeing this issue with ArcGIS Pro 2.1.2 and prior. The issue with the System attribute needs to be looked at by ESRI as to how this attribute is getting set. Now, "why" folders that have these attributes set are not showing in Windows is strait forward: (from http://web.csulb.edu/~murdock/attrib.html) "With DOS Versions after Version 4, use the +S option to set the SYSTEM attribute of a file. When the +S option is used, this flags the file as a command file used only by DOS. The file will not appear in a directory listing. This attribute is generally reserved for programmers." There is also a H attribute that will have this same effect. Oh, if this just started for you check if you receive Windows 10 Build 1709 (see https://jprudente.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/inaccessible-network-shares-on-windows-10-1709/). Rich ... View more

We have had this issue as well for over a year now since testing Drone2Map -good to see a resolution. We had an entire round with ESRI support regarding this and finally gave up -since we had not yet deployed Pro to a wide audience. ARCGIS: UP v11.14.1 Feature usage info: Users of ACT:  (Error: 1 licenses, unsupported by licensed server) ... View more

It redraws but it does not appear to be resulting in the desired behavior (zoom into the new map extent). ... View more

I know this is an old thread, but a working snip was never posted, so here you go! TurnOffLayer.py _________________ import arcpy fileName=arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") lyr=arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, fileName) if lyr:     if lyr[0].visible==True:          lyr[0].visible=False          arcpy.RefreshActiveView() sys.argv[2]=True arcpy.SetParameter(1,"True") ... View more