Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Are you using the same MXD when you do this. Try it again on the same section of feature in a brand new MXD and use the same features to try and duplicate it. If it does not crash you may have an issue with the MXD you are using. If this is the case recreate your MXD by using the Select Elements tool in Layout View.  Select all elements and COPY.  in a new blank MXD layout view move the existing data frame out of the way.  set your page size to what it was in the original  mxd, if you had set up the layout for printing.  Paste to copied elements. and save your mxd. ... View more

I am not familiar with the method you are describing. When I have had to do it I use the COGO tool to draw lines.  I then add the points and snap them to the end points of the lines.  If your in a geometric network it should create a network junction at each end that you can then copy paste into your point feature class I am trying to create a feature, placing a point at a specific length and angle from an existing point. I use the point at the end of a line tool, click on the existing point with snapping features on, and click ctrl-L. I type in the length and units (7 m). The UI goes away and the length is not fixed. It will work without units, but then i end up with the map display units. This used to work a month ago. I'm using 10.1. Is anyone else having the same problem? Thanks. ... View more

What your saying is you have a feature class that is linked to images. I don't think you can do that.  Instead you may have to create links to the images in Google Earth Hello, I want to convert a feature class to kml, which is part of a FGDB, the same feature class contains a field of raster which contain photos. I want to convert this feature class to kml file, which should be displayed the photos too in google earth. Please help me if anyone know the solution. Regards Johnson ... View more

Is there a reason why you are not simply copying them from one filegeodatabase to the other in Catalog? ... View more

Double click on the feature in the table of contents to open layer properties.  The click on the General Tab then select a scale at which to become visible. Start with 1:24,000 and see how that works. also, do this for as many of your features that do not need to be observed at full scale.  Labels as well. The more features you have to draw the longer it will take. A good part of it is also hardware.  Better graphics cards and better CPU's and RAM. IF it is something that people need to add on occasion then set your desired scale for the shape file and save it as a layer file.  then when someone just needs to add it real quick it will not become visible until the desired scale is reached. ... View more

determine the logical order in which you wish to create your lines and create them from point to point. I just did something similar for 65000 Transmission Structures. I took the x,y coordinates into excel and sorted them the way I wanted them to draw then filled in the ToX and ToY with a formula and then used the XY to Line function to create the line segments. ... View more

TRY JUST the first part first to make sure it is working for you before creating the rest of the code. ... View more

Go to the layer properties in your attribute with the leading zeros. Click on the display tab and then the Expression button. Where there is the check box for Advanced click that. Now write this in your dialog box. or copy paste if it works Function FindLabel ( [TextTest]  ) if instr(3, [TextTest] ,1)  then  FindLabel = left( [TextTest] ,2) & mid( [TextTest] ,(instr(3,[TextTest] ,1)),10) end if End Function Where it says [TextTest] change it to your attribute Now this is important.  The way it is in now it will only do it correctly for the strings that start with a 1 after the zeros. Copy and paste everything from and including IF to End IF change both of the 1 to 2  paste again for each number through 9 and change the 1 to the next number.  make sure End Function stays at the end. Where you see the 10 that is the number of characters after the zeros to display.  If your string is longer than that increase the number. ... View more

Are all the fields similar in that the first character is a letter and the second is the  "-" symbol and the third is a Zero? Hi, I would like to have the leading zeros removed from the output results.  For example when a feature is selected and the attributes are displayed I want it to show L-12345 not L-0000000012345.  Or if you do a search by typing in L-12345 and not      L-0000000012345.  Is there a way to do this in the esearch widget tool?  Thanks! ... View more

Looks like UTM Meters.  I tried to place them and came up with a location to the west of Marseille. You should go back to the source where the Lidar Data came from there should be Metadata that tells you the projection/coordinate system used. Hello, I have a problem here, indeed, I used an ASCII file from LIDAR data but I want now to define a coordinate system. When I open the ASCII file, it gave me a list of numbers : 545023.50 299909.50 8.33 545024.50 299909.50 8.70 545025.50 299909.50 8.80 545026.50 299909.50 8.79 545027.50 299909.50 9.01 545028.50 299909.50 8.41 545029.50 299909.50 8.52 545030.50 299909.50 8.54 545031.50 299909.50 9.11 ... I understand that it is X, Y and Z coordinates but I don't know in which coordinate system. Does anyone have an idea ? (It is supposed to be in the North of France, on the coast) Thanks in advance, Take care, Joss ... View more

did you check their privileges? ... View more

turn off or remove the layer with the house symbol on it. ... View more

You are correct in that it should only effect the feature datasets that were updated.  Unless someone accidentally unregistered the other feature datasets. Thanks for the response...we did add some feature classes to 2 different datasets and we still have to reversion those datasets. I wouldn't think that would affect the whole database though just those datasets(i.e. you would get an error that the layer wasn't versioned when trying to edit), is that not the case? We will try reversioning and see if that works. Thanks, S ... View more

someone probably added a new feature or made some modifications start off by assigning privileges to them again. Also, right click on one of the  feature datasets in ArcCatalog that is giving the issue.  Select Manage 4th and 5th options should be Register as Versioned and Unregister as Versioned.  If register as versioned is NOT grayed out then you need to register as versioned This is also where you can check privileges You will need to be logged in as the SDE administrator. ... View more

Is your pipe data one line or multiple lines one for each depth? You will have to break your pipe at the various depths. You can snap your point to the edge of the pipes. Try the Identity tool (if you have spatial analyst extension) You can also do a join that shows you the distance to the nearest feature. Are there a large number of depth values? If there only a few (like 20 or so) select all the depths for say 10 feet.  Then do a Select by location and select all the pipes within 5 feet or so.  Here is would be better if you did the bulk snap and snapped all your points to a pipe.  then you could do the spatial join like you did and create a new feature class with the depths attached. Hi, I have polyline data with line segments for a pipe network and point data for the depths of the pipes at certain (deviant) points. I want to combine these two datasets into a new dataset. Any suggestions on how I can do this efficiently? I tried spatial join where the points and lines intersect, but because only some of the points lie precisely on a line segment, I got very few results. Spatial join by point closest to the line doesn't work for me either, because not every line segment has a point. What I want is the depth attribute for each point to be added to the attribute table in the row of the closest line. How can I automate this? ... View more