Latest Contributions by JakubSisak

This is fantastic Kayla! If i could rate on this forum, you would get all the points possible fir this little tidbit. ... View more

This is not possible as far as i know. You will have to re-create the TIN surface in Civil 3D from the original source data. And Yes, you could also export nodes from the ESRI TIN and convert them to XYZ file then import the XYZ to ACAD to create your surface. This process might yield some differences especially if you have modified the ESRI TIN surface in any way; added breaklines adjusted nodes manually.... ... View more

Thanks, My soulution was to convert the scale bar to a graphic and delete the text elements. Then I inserted scale text below the scal bar and centered.  Resulting in a static scale bar of 1 inch increments, and  scale text that will change with the scale of the map. Thanks, For maps where scale changes from map to map and you don't want to "fix" the scale bar manually every time scale changes it's probably better to exclude the scale bar all together and only include Reference Grid and scale text. Alternatively, you might want to consider changing the Double Alternating bar to a simple one without any division value and label the beginning and end. You could also do what you said; export the Double Alternating bar to a graphic 1" long then superimpose another dynamic (simple) scale bar over top of but only label beginning and end of the bar and make the scale bar "no color" only displaying the labels. ... View more

It's possible your procedure is crashing before it gets to the message box. Debug and step trough the code. Put a breakpoint on the msgbox line and if the code does not pause on the breakpoint then your problem is in the code prior. Set your break point in the beginning of the procedure and use F8 to step through line by line until you find where its crashing. Optionally, you can set up a trap and set a break point inside the trap, then use "resume next" to get to the line that generated the error. (once the error has been trapped you can get the error number and description from the immediate window by typing ?err.number or ?err.desc etc.) ... View more

"Cad to Geodatabase" tool. Then you can use "Feature Class To Shapefile" to convert to shp. ... View more

never mind, i was told that in 10 there will be dynamic text that can be added to MXDs to handle this Yes. A very nice feature indeed. Right under the Insert Menu -> Insert Dynamic Text Read posts about version 10 before migrating... I jumped the gun now i wish I waited. VBA for example is being phased out which is most evident by the fact that in version 10 you can no longer add UI Controls (buttons, tools, etc) in the Normal Template only on document level. ... View more

I have 20m contours for the entire country and would like to use it to generate a terrain dataset that will be used with Arc Hydro to calculate catchment characteristics i.e. area, longest water course, 10/85 slope etc. I'm considering generating a DEM for each contour sheet using a 10m cell size and then converting the DEM into a point shapefile. I'll then convert the point shapefile into a multi-part point shapefile, thereby reducing the records per point. Is my approach going to produce a better terrain than using the contour lines to generate the surface. Regards Personally, i don't find terrain datasets particularly useful for anything other that cartography at the moment. In the future as ESRI adds more functionality terrain datasets might replace TIN but currently if you would like to any kind of geo-processing TIN is probably a better option. I do not use ArcHydro but often generate very large watershed models and stream networks with Spatial Analyst. From what i understand ArcHydro uses much of Spatial Analyst functionality for its purposes so I believe what you need is a DEM not terrain dataset or TIN.  You can probably generate hydrologically correct DEM from the 20m contours with "Topo to Raster" but it will be a huge job to do this for the entire country of South Africa. You might also run into problems with merging the individual datasets. I am almost certain you would not be able to do the entire model at once. Instead of doing this i would recommend to try using DEM such as SRTM 1 arc-second which is equivalent to about 30m resolution but on such a large scale you might even consider 3 arc-second (90m resolution). For Africa, this can be found here: http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/Africa/  (Source: USGS) Not sure if 1-arc-second data is freely available for your area. Often there is a cost involved with the higher resolution DEM. ... View more

The best way to do this is to import the CAD files into a geodatabase then use the spatial adjustment tools (Spatial Adjustment) menu. You are correct; working with the CAD file itself you will only have 2 control points. ... View more

Select all layers in one mxd -> Copy -> right-click on the "target" data frame in another mxd -> "Paste Layer(s)".  Immediately after you paste the layers they will be selected so right click on any selected layer and "Group" ... View more

If the toolbar has been created in the Normal template try this: Set pCmdBar = pCmdBars.Find("Normal.ThisDocument.Parcel Split") instead of: Set pCmdBar = pCmdBars.Find("Project.Parcel Split") ... View more

mxt is a template file for mxd documents. In VBA, when you place code in the "Normal (Normal.mxt)" Project (see attached) you are actually placing the code in the "Normal.mxt" template from which all documents will "inherit" this custom behavior. This goes for both 9.3 and version 10. With the exception that older versions (8 - 9.x.x) you can also add custom buttons and other controls into your global normal template (Normal.mxt) but in version 10 you cannot. ... View more

I didn't notice that before.  It worked for the symbology but not the labeling.  It only allowed me to provide 1 value, the value for the field used in the symbology.  So my labeling SQL expression disapeared along with the font and color. Importing symbology does not import the Label schema and expressions. There is no out-of-the box tool a am aware of to import labels but it can be done with VBA. http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/12764-Is-there-a-way-of-Importing-Label-Styles-as-you-do-Symbology?highlight=import+labels ... View more

Are just the field names different? If so, you could change the Value Field(s) and re-save the layer file.  (See attached for visual) If the attribute values themselves have been updated you could create a look-up table and join the layer with the table then symbolize on the join fields. ... View more

If you are using ArcGIS 10 then you can no longer save UI controls in the Normal Template. You can still do so in the document-Level.  In ArcCatolog UI controls are still available. ... View more