Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

It should be in your editor toolbar. If you cannot find it just open the customize dialog and in the show commands containing dialog search for right angle. If it still isn't there then you probably have an old version of ArcGIS and if you can then upgrade. I don't see any available options for right angle from the drop down, is this the sketch tools (editor tool bar with the pencil icon)? ... View more

If you move the end point of the line it most likely will still be a closed polyline. You will need to manually split them to break them up. You could also try the explode function and see if that will get you anywhere. Here is an off approach fix. use calculate geometry to calculate the X,Y of the end points of each line. Then take those x,y locations and create point features from them.  BUFFER those point features into a polygon layer with a 1 inch buffer.  Select all those buffer polygons and clip the polyline layer.  Now of you have some that are NOT closed you can calculate beginning and ending x,y and and then only create the points on those features that have identical fromx, fromy and tox toy Sound arduous but the whole thing should take a couple of minutes.  ' I would recommend experimenting on a copy first. Hi All, I have a feature class made up of lines. Each of these lines are loops. Therefore they have the same beginning and ending xy coordinates. I am looking to move the end vertices for each line a known value away to disconnect each loop. I understand that through editor I can manually change the end vertices for each loop in sketch properties but I am looking for an automated way to move the last/end vertices of each line in my feature class the same known distance. Example: I move each line's end vertice 5 meters in the x direction and 5 meters in the y direction. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ... View more

If you print from the Layout View it should only print what you have displayed in the layout window.   Provided your map page size and paper size are the same. ... View more

One of the sketch tools in the drop down menu is Right Angle.  It will only allow you to create lines at a right angle. HOWEVER to make it work for your preexisting lines you will need to start at a vertex that is NOT the one at which you wish to make the right angle. Here is a simple procedure.  go to the line you need to make the lateral.  I will call it pipeline have your snapping set to line and vertex (or whatever your GPS point is) start off a little away from the lateral point and start your lateral.  for the second vertex in the lateral click on your gps point.  then go off in whatever direction you want.  when you are done with the lateral you will need to delete the first vertice. A second way is if you know the exact angle of the original pipeline you can use the COGO drawing tool to specify exact angles.  Once you have your first lateral off the pipeline you can then use the cogo tool to accurately and easily draw in the rest of your lateral to where is it going.  Very helpful this if you have other elbows that are not 90 degrees. Keep in mind though that your GPS point will probably be off by anywhere from a few inches to many several feet.  Depending on the quality of your GPS unit and the method used to capture it. Good morning everyone- I'm trying to create a sanitary sewer lateral layer in my geodatabase and I'm running into a bit of a problem. Ultimately what I'd like to do is this- All of my assets, sanitary & water are all Gps'd and I have positioning of the laterals. How is it that I can create polylines that go directly from the GPS'd lateral locations to the existing sewer line and have it be a 90 degree angle? I've been editing and drawing the lines by hand but they're just not 100% correct. If I can get 90 it would be more accurate and better for anyone. Thank you. ... View more

To many variables to be able to narrow it down. 1. it could be that your machine is not powerful enough to handle a large number of calculations. 2. Polygon layers take more resources to export.  Annotation is treated as a polygon.  If your annotation is feature linked that takes longer as well 3. if your data is on a network that can make it take longer. 4.  pause the drawing while exporting.  This will free up resources for your computer. 5.  if your working in a geodatabase or SDE you should compress it 6 run disk defrag and disk cleanup on your computer 7  how much free space does your hard drive have?  If it is under 15% you should free as much up as possible.  and run defrag and disk clean up again. 8.  for your export settings.  Lower it down to 300 or better yet 150.  600 is good but that is a huge drag on the export.  Change the output image quality down to normal.  on the Advanced tab when exporting set it to Layers and Attributes to NONE and do not export georeference info Hi I try to export map with annotation with PrintingTools and I found export map with one  annotation layer  only takes about 1-2 minutes to A4 landscape pdf 1:2000 600 dpi. While export map with one polygon layer takes about 5-6 seconds and 5-6 different polygon and polyline layers 6-7 seconds also. Is there a way to increase the speed of export map with the annotations layer? BTW. Dynamic service vs feature layer from dynamic service. Map export to A4 pdf 1:2000 with operational layer from my dynamic service Hydrography  with one layer Sea  takes 76 seconds. Map export to A4 pdf 1:2000 from Feature layer Sea (map service) from this dynamic service Hydrography   takes 5-6 seconds. Hardware: HP ML350 G4p 2*Xeon 3.00 GHz 8 RAM SCSI RAID 5 Software Windows 2008 R2 Standard, ArcGIS for Server WG 10.1 sp1, Viewers for Flex 3.6 or for Silverlight 3.2. Help me please Thanks. Oleg ... View more

We still use XP in my office. Our GIS Team will be the last to upgrade our office is only going to 7.  Windows 8 is fine.  I use it at home and it works great.  I installed ArcReader at home and brought home a database and pmf that i generated at work on an XP machine.  One of my clients wanted to get an 8.1 tablet and wanted to know if it would work.  which it did. There just have been to many problems with upgrading a system to 8 because the programs on your machine were not built for it. However, the same has held true for many previous upgrades so this isn't particular to 8.  When we upgrade to 7 next month we will perform complete installs. Thanks for the help. I am definitely NOT going to reinstall 8 :mad:. My computer was originally running 7 but I had problems trying to map a network drive (through a VPN) and was told that 7 did not have the capability so I would have to install 8. I'll figure out that problem as soon as I figure out where to re-download. I was hoping there was a link online somewhere but I guess I will have to call IT at school... ... View more

I guess it is to late to tell you to not upgrade to Windows 8.  Windows 8 is great, but it is better to not upgrade to it from 7 or XP as it typically causes issues. From what I understand you are only qualified for one student copy of ArcGIS Where did you get your first copy? Typically I thought students got them from their school. The main student download on the ESRI site is for instructors. If you have an ESRI Global Account you should be able to get a 60 day version here. http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-for-desktop/free-trial This might be what you had before. http://www.esri.com/landing-pages/software/arcgis/arcgis-desktop-student-trial I had a student evaluation version installed but now I have a huge problem. Because of a disaster with upgrading to Windows 8.1 I had to reinstall everything then a driver update caused my computer to go black. I am being forced to reload and reinstall everything. I cannot find where I can re-download ArcGIS 10.0. I have been wasting all morning on this. When I go to the student evaluation it asks me to activate mine but it doesn't show where I can download it. I have homework due and drastically need to get this reinstalled ASAP. Can anyone out there help me? ... View more

If you added them in an ArcGIS session why would you need to geocode them.  They should already be placed where you want them.  Typically geocoding is performed on a set of data that is not a shape file or feature class. I edited the shapefile to add the new records in an ArcGIS session. First I thought about exporting the shapefile to Excel and then add  the new records there, but I didn't do it. Because I thought the old records would lose their XY coordinates. So, after I added the new records in an ArcGis session, do I have to geocode the shapefile(table) again and use the new shapefile obtained from geocoding to make my map? . ... View more

I am not certain what you did but did you open the dbf in something like excel and add the records. You cannot do that with a shapefile.  you will lose everything or if you don't lose it you can scramble the data records.  The dbf rows are tied to a specific graphical feature. if you make changes to the dbf you alter which record is tied to which graphic. if you need to edit a shapefile you do it in an ArcGIS session. I am told to update a shapefile (add new records to it) before I can use it to produce a map. To update the shapefile, I opened its attribute table and then used "Start Editing" and "Add new features" option to enter the new records. As I updated the shapefile this way (by editing the table and adding the new records), I think that the XY coordinates were not lost for the old records. However, I am wondering if I have to geocode again the shapefile in order for the new records to have a positional location attached to them and then use the exported shapefile (obtained after geocoding) to make my map? Thanks. ... View more

Oh well then.  sorry I read in the beginning you were not sure you had it. First you need to create a TIN from your contours.  You should assign a projection to them.  use the Search in an ArcGIS session and look for TIN EDGE that will create the TIN from your polyline contours. Then search for SURFACE SLOPE and it will create a polygon layer for you from the TIN that displays Slope IF you could find a pre-existing DEM of your location in question it would be a little easier. I HAVE SPATIAL ANALYST INSTALLED!! Anyway...........I'd rather die than doing it the other way!! ... View more

Without spatial analyst it would be very time consuming to do this.  It is doable but will take a lot of work and mathematics Slope is essentially 2 points on different contours and you calculate the Angle from one point to the other. The math is simple use of SOH CAH TOA and you could actually calculate en mass in Excel provided you do the leg work. Going back to my Map Fundamentals class in college.  You place 2 points.  Draw a line to connect them.  Determine the length of the line (hypotenuse) and determine height based on the differences in which contour each point is on.  You will always know one angle is 90 degrees.  However, you won't end up with the nice color map.  But you can have resulting lines with the slope as an attribute. Now to get complicated you can manually make TINs and create polygons from them that you can color based on slope.  But that would take a lot of work Hey rborchert i think that will generate an slope GRAPH. I need a map with diferent colors that indicate the slope in %, with intervals, like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]31012[/ATTACH] Thanks anyway!!!!!! ... View more

Almost all the slope tools require 3D/Spatial Analyst.  Here is a poor mans idea. Generate Line length between your points and embed them with elevation at their point. then export them to a table which you can bring into Excel and generate a graph based on elevation and length.  it is crude but effective. Hello people I put this thread in this category because I don't know anything about how its done or where it should be. Cartography seemed cool. Here is the thing. I have isolines every 25 m wich I exported from a CAD shape (I don't know if its relevant), and now i wish to make a slope map (and an elevation one if its relationed ;)) setting my own "intervals" in %. Hope you can help me and hope I'm in the correct category 😉 ... View more

It would be helpful if you could post the .csv file instead.  and detail for us the steps you are taking to add a .csv as a feature. It should work.  I have done it with a .csv files of significantly more points than that. What may be happening is it is pushing them to an event layer and often the event layers don't show everything.  Take the event layer that is generated and export it to a shapefile or database and see what happens with the new feature class. I have been researching this issue all day and have tried IE 11, Mozilla, and Chrome browsers.  I have a .csv file of GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude) that I am able to Add under My Content.  I used a sample of 20 records and that file will load, publish as a feature service and display on a map. After I Add a .CSV with more records and publish it, I can see the points in the little preview window under the Feature Service.  When I then try to open that feature service in a new map none of the points will display.  I am at my wits end over this.  The full file is 3,487 points.  I have broken it down to 100, 250, and 500 records and NONE of those will actually display on the map although I am sure that the coordinates mapped correctly.  Is there a bug here?  I Added the whole file yesterday and was able to see all the points, but removed it due to an issue with one of the fields (long story, don't ask).  So now I am really perplexed.  Any assistance would be appreciated.  My esri Account Rep probably wants to strangle me with all the e-mails I have sent him today.  I have attached a picture of the preview window to show that the points do exist....they just won't display in a map for me. Thank you! ~Paula C., OCAC, Syracuse, NY ... View more

It it does not happen with firefox or IE then it is chrome.  Chrome is more streamlined to run faster and it may not be allowing certain scripts or tools to load in it's environment. Are you using Windows XP (still) by any chance? WE've had exactly this (well it sounds like it) flashing black screen when over various panels. It turns out to be graphics card related with XP - to fix it we turned down the Graphic Hardware Acceleration - we found two notches down from the lowest worked fine. Credit here to Martin on our internal help desk, who had seem similar issues with other applications. Not an issue with Windows 7 (afaik) ACM ... View more