Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Once you get your MXD open and maplex turned off start a new arcgis session. from the layout view copy all the elements. paste them into the layout view of the new map.  not in the new data frame. you will create new data frames. This is an old problem and I am surprised ESRI has not fixed it.  I have seen this same question a number of times for many months. A lot of my maps were using the maplex extension for labelling. We just upgraded to 10.1 and everytime I open a map that had maplex turned on the mxd crashes.  If I get to the pause button ontime I can switch the properties back to the standard label engine, but it's getting rather frustrating. Any fixes for this? ... View more

You will have to load it into a  geodatabase.  256 columns is max for csv excel etc to load into ArcGIS. your csv is a simple text file so it can be pretty large if you open it in word or wordpad etc... I am running ArcGIS Desktop SP 5 and I have a python script that creates a text file (.csv) with 995 columns.  My intention was to bring it into ArcGIS as a table and join it to the data it relates to.  However when viewing the csv as a table in ArcCatalog or ArcMap it only shows the first 256 columns.  I have read other threads in 9.3 forums referring to the same issue and that it relates to the Microsoft ODBC text driver and that this is the column limitation for text files. I know this has changed for 10.1 because the table will open fine on my home PC running a trial version of 10.1 "ArcGIS uses its own implementation for accessing delimited text file information and should handle the most common cases for displaying these files in ArcGIS." http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//005s00000010000000 However my work computer has to be on 10.0.  Is there any way around this besides splitting the csv file up into less than 256 columns per file?  Will this ArcGIS implementation for accessing delimited text files ever exist in 10.0? Thanks for your help ... View more

Did you change the resolution for your monitor or for your map to print.  Changing the export or print resolution should not do as you indicate. I was changing the resolution of a map to export (in the export map window) and downsized the bottom half of the window to view part of the map, but a similar arrow resize the window does not appear.  Now I am unable to rename a file or change the resolution for export. I created an entirely new .mxd and have the same problem.  I have version 10.0 desktop. Has anyone run into this problem? ... View more

You can try it with dimension lines.  I thought about it and made a dimension feature class.  I made customized symbol that looked like two arrows pointing inwards with an extension on the end.  Kind of cumbersome to set up took a lot of trial and error but once it is done and you figure it out you can quickly and easily draw they leaders you want. I'm in a situation where I need to create an annotation with a two part leader line. Basically what I have is a corridor with several different pipeline right-of-ways that need to be labeled and it's very difficult to distinguish which one is which using regular leader lines simply pointing to the center of each. Instead I what I need is a leader line going from the label to one side of the right-of-way then another smaller leader line on the other side of the right-of-way with arrows pointing to it. I've attached a jpg to show what I mean. Right now I'm drawing the single leader from the annotation and then adding a graphic arrow on the other side, but this is obviously clumsy and a bit time comsuming getting them to line up the way I want them. [ATTACH=CONFIG]26008[/ATTACH] Any ideas how this might be done quicker and a bit cleaner? ... View more

I have been wanting this for YEARS.  The best method I have found so far is to use the multiple layers. What I also want to see (and I have put it in the suggestion box multiple times) is to have a way to query the current scale and return it as a value.  Such that I can have a scale field in the feature class table and have individual features turn on or off and various scales.  i.e. I have feature  A and B.  I want feature a to be visible all scales and B only visible when zoomed in to 1:24,000 or less.  so the definition query would be something like.  scale <=  MapScale. Now I know there has to be a way to return current map scale.  after all it is constantly visible in an ArcMAP session. The multiple layer approach certainly gets the job done well enough. I was just hoping to simplify the map product for other end users. Maybe this will be an improvement in the future! Thanks for the reply rfairhur24. ... View more

I have not ever tried to work with 40 million records in shapefile or SDC files for that matter so I could not tell you how long it might take.  I have some very very very large databases but I have never tried to export more than 750,000 0 records and never to a shapefile on that scale Probably stay away from Python.  Your adding to many steps to your procedure.  There is probably no way the get around crunching it one state at a time.  However, like I mentioned close all other programs to give more power to your cpu.  if you have your files open in arcgis just use the simple symbols and remove all unnecessary features. I file or personal geodatabase is probably the way to go. What other formats can pgAdmin utilize?  Perhaps try exporting to one of those. bottom line is you have a huge dataset and it takes a machine with the hardware to handle that. ... View more

What program do you intend to use as a postGIS program to work with the date. A shapefile may or may  not be necessary. I believe it would go faster if you import to a personal or file geodatabase first. Also, when you are selecting and exporting pause the drawing. The length of time required is a direct relation to size of the data file and the power of your computer. close all programs on your computer and ONLY have the program you need running. I am not sure how to deal with sdc file. Can I export into file geodatabase? I think the bottleneck I have is about transforming the sdc file at the moment. ... View more

zoom to will zoom to the extents of all features selected.  pan to will pan to the geographical center of the features selected. IF you only have one feature selected pan and zoom will react the same for point features. Often in prior versions if you have only one feature selected and you hit zoom to and your feature was point it would actually center it and zoom out a little. ... View more

Are there any other options to this rather than a shapefile? i.e. what do you intend to use as a postGIS program? Can you import the SDC files into a personal geodatabase. ... View more

On a copy of your pipes in a geodatabase create a geometric network of your pipes. Make the network with complex edges.  this should then create a network junction at each intersection. Then export the network junctions as something else and you will have a set of points at all intersections. Remove the network.  Create it again with Simple junctions.  Select by Location the saved complex junctions with the simple junctions.  Where there is an intersect that is where the actual intersections are.  Delete the matches and you will be left with a set of points where two pipes cross but are not connected. It would actually take you a less time to do this than it took me to type it. ... View more

You can only export points, polylines and polygons (which may show up as closed polylines) the symbols you see in your GIS Session are a part of the definition you have in your MXD Hello, I am trying to convert a shapefile/feature class (Arc 9.3) to send to someone with AutoCAD 2007 (.dwg). I would like to check the output before sending it off, but I do not have AutoCAD to check to see what it looks like after the export. When I bring the .dwg file into Arc to look at it, all the attributes are gone/different from the original shapefile. Is their a way to preserve the attributes from the original shapefile when exporting to CAD? I can not use the Service Pack 1 that is referenced in previous threads, as I do not have AutoCAD on my machine. Any help appreciated! ... View more

I just tried it on a joined table and it does work. You can dynamic text off an attribute from a joined table. ... View more

I have not tried using a joined table but I do not see why it would not work. Worth a try. Let me know if it works. Thanks for the feedback! I wonder if it would work with a Join? Did you try that before you addded your feature attributes to the data driven pages layer? ... View more