Latest Contributions by MattWilkie1

Important note: I've encountered circumstances in which Arc Pro will ignore a None transformation and silently pick the first one in it's list of what it thinks is appropriate when the tool is run. The way to verify if a transformation is applied or not is to look at the geoprocessing history in the metadata. (Tip: it’s easier to use the History panel than metadata, because it does the parsing for you.) Using arcpy and manually specifiying no transformation seems to be reliable. ... View more

(Excerpt from my internal KB) [...] Each time there was a message "Error returning fulfillment (FID-999...) to license server (SERVER)", where "SERVER" refers to a machine that no longer exists. Afterwards the total license counts for all products on this LM were wrong. Some higher, others lower. Our corporate license admin (Ryan Gould) supplied a recipe that fully resolved the issue. REPAIR CORRUPT LICENSE AUTHORIZATION Delete the licensing trusted storage: After deauthorizing your Concurrent Use licenses, stop the ArcGIS License Manager Service and close ArcGIS License Server Administrator. In Windows File Explorer, navigate to the following directory: C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet Delete all ArcGIS related files from the FLEXNet folder (or if there are only ArcGIS related files, you can simply delete the FLEXNet folder). Return to the ArcGIS License Server Administrator and re-authorize your Concurrent Use licenses (including 3D Analyst). Verify the details in the Availability folder and in the diagnostic report from the License Manager. You might need to “Start/Stop License Server >> Re-read Licenses” to correct Availability. ... View more

Thank you Jim! I've started a GitHub project to collect the scripts people have found useful enough to resurrect. Contributors welcome: GitHub - envygeo/arcscripts_archive: a) listing of content published to Esri ArcScripts before it went offline, b) resto…  ... View more

Thank you for articulating so well many of the frustrations I've had swirling in my brain but haven't been able to set down in words myself. I also appreciate that you take time to give kudos to the tech support people who do help as best they can, though unfortunately the refrain from them is more and more "put it in Ideas if you need this worked on". WRT to the blue-screens and strange errors: accept nothing less than ECC RAM, and Xeon CPU too if you can spec that. Since we've done that for our blue-screen occurences have gone way down. Unfortunately we can't do this for all our users, but we're trying. I can't say for certain this is the cure, but it's worked here. ... View more

I'm happy to send you a copy (should probably send me something that proves you have a license for ArcGIS desktop so I don't run afoul of Esri legal). ... View more

Vote this up at Need for ArcGIS Pro tool to convert vertical Datum (CGVD1928 ↔ CGVD2013)  ... View more

Hey everybody, vote this up at Need for ArcGIS Pro tool to convert vertical Datum (CGVD1928 ↔ CGVD2013)  ... View more

19 to 20, since ArcMap v8. ... View more

Jim Barry‌, when you have a moment I'm looking for "15287, Geographic Transformation formula maps, GeographicTransformationMaps.zip, AS15287.zip" ... View more

Helpful apples to apples comparison. Thanks. Also thanks for mentioning AV3. I fire it up from time to time just so I can feel what speed feels like. 😉 ... View more

If you are experiencing delays, it sounds like an installation or pc configuration problem to me.  I've noticed this on pc's configured by someone other than the primary user (i.e., general IT staff) and where the user does not have full admin permissions.  ....  Ensure that you have full admin permissions. I really hope this is a red herring. It's flat out not possible to enable full admin for all our GIS users. We've already dealt with a couple ransom ware attacks this year that made it inside the firewall. (Thankfully our IT folks caught and quarantined before real damage was done; was very time consuming for them though.) As the perpetrators grow sophistication we're going to have get tighter permissions not looser. There is no reason I've thought of for a user-space program like Pro to require admin permissions. ... View more

I believe the lag time related to number of layers is because the GP tool validator inspects each and every one for validity, testing that a) it exists and b) is the specified or necessary data type. This can be bypassed by going direct to an arcpy script, but that's only a time saver in a narrow range of cases. ... View more

Thanks Ian. No, not on the beta programme. I was a few years ago but pulled out because there's too much distance between that and production. I need to support and instruct users on stable, which means I need to be using the same environment as them. Switching between env's is too attention/time costly. ... View more

Eep, prematurely posted. I was about to add "if we all just reply metrics in-thread like this it's not going to be very useable. Is there an option to format and export the metrics as csv?" ... View more