Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Ed, Sorry but this is a basic question but a place to start.  Did you create your MXD and is your database that the PMF was created from made with 10.1 I have noticed some erroneous errors when using items created in 10.0 and used in 10.1 We have been able to fix the issues. I am thinking that if ArcReader 10.1 opens just fine but the PMF causes it to crash it may be that kind of issue. However, I have not tried it in Windows 8 nor have any of my clients. I recently sent a client their data and ArcReader 10.1 doc.  They are using Windows 8 and when opening the document ArcReader crashes.  No error message, just disappears.   The client is able to start ArcReader without crashing, so I've ruled out the install being bad, but the same behavior occurs when opening the doc from the File menu.   I have since tested the document and data using a Windows 8 machine we have in-house and I can open the document without problems. We have tried the following with no luck: Moved the data and document from a network location to local machine - still crashes Disabled anti-virus - still crashes Upgraded all underlying personal and file geodatabases to 10.1 - still crashes Other info: The client had been successfully using ArcReader 9.3 on Windows 8 prior to upgrading to 10.1 The map contains only data from personal and file geodatabases, one shapefile, and a Mr SID ortho Any insight as to the possible cause/solution or where I can look to get more details on why this is happening? ... View more

If it is at the point where you have to delete a bunch of vertices way back you might be just as well off using the Reshape Feature Tool. As far as the Control Z.  You can keep executing it all the way back to your last save.  I just tried it to make sure and I did a line with 20 vertices and it allowed me to CTRL-Z all the way back to the start.  Did the same for a polygon. This confounded me for the longest time too but it turned out to be really simple. 🙂 If you hover the mouse over the vertex and right click there should be an option to delete vertex while you are still sketching.  IIRC I think this only works in reverse order, like you can't skip back to the middle but you can delete each one in order back to the middle. ... View more

Press Control Z [SUB][/SUB] Hi, Does anyone know how to delete vertices (i.e. back up) in ArcMap 10 while drawing in freehand in the construction tools?  I was just curious if there was a way to do this without having to go ahead and complete the polygon and then go back and edit the vertices post completion. Thanks! Matthew ... View more

Thanks,  <insert hitting heel of hand on forehead sound> I have no idea how many times I saw the option box but didn't click on it. If you go to the Option box for stack label (label manager>placement properties>fitting strategy) you have the option to force a split at a space (or a comma, an astrix, etc.) and if you're in 10.1 there is an option to constrain to center.  I don't remember the constrain to center option in 10.0, but the force split is definitely an option there. Another thing to check is the minimum number of characters on a line. It defaults to 3 so that could be an issue for say, Substation #9 ... View more

Embed them in the export setting when you make a PDF. I've search around and I have no clue why this is happening.  I'm using some 3D marker symbols on a map of a lake we run.  On screen all of the icons show both on the map and in the legend just fine.  When I go to print to actual paper or to pdf or even save as a jpeg the legend is missing some of the icons.  Can anyone shed some light on why?  I'm using ArcMap 10.1. Thanks Stephen ... View more

Draw a polygon that is 8500 x 8500 meters  or what ever dimensions you want to make it 85 hectare's Then copy the attributes from the old polygon to the new polygon. You can easily make a perfect polygon of given dimensions by first making it with the COGO tool and then make your Polygone by snapping to the ends of the COGO lines. ... View more

From a blank ArcGIS session. Click on Customize > Style Manager From the Style Manager Window select Styles... Click on Add Style to List... and add your newly downloaded styles. ... View more

you should also recreate your mxd in 10.1 Export everything as a layer file and add them to a new 10.1 mxd or select all elements in the layout and paste them into your new 10.1 mxd ... View more

I have not used matchlines as they are considered in cartography. What we simply have done is to make the map sheets visible from adjoining and adjacent map sheets and just had them as hollow with a border.  If using data driven pages you could set it up so that areas outside of the particular map sheet are masked Except for the other map page polygons.  Or you could convert your map polygons to polylines and do the same.  But you set up your data driven pages to have say 105% extra. The first attachment is a sample of what it looks like.  Now the map pages I used here are all actually townships so there is no rotation. The following 4 attachments show Map1 the two polygons I start with as map pages.  Sorry I didn't make them over lap for the matchline purpose. Observe they are at different angles.  The one on the right is page 1 Map 2 Shows setting up the data driven pages to have rotation.  Sorry I misspelled Angle Map 3 shows the Angle I put in to rotate that map.  The angle I put in for page one is 234 Map 4 shows what Page 1 looks like in the layout view with it rotated. Now put in your always facing north, north arrow. This should help you achieve the desired result. There is a measurement tool in there that will more precisely tell you the angle so you can have it perfectly rotated so it is at right angles in the layout. ... View more

Do you want all your map pages to be at the same scale? You can create your base polygon to be used in the correct size. Draw it around the beginning of your map book.  Then simply copy and paste the polygon going down the pipeline and snap it to the previous polygon. If you know the schema in which you wish to name the map pages and it follows a logical sequential order then it is somewhat important to follow the pipeline from begging of the book to the end. It will give the polygons sequential objectid's which could potentially be used for a variety of field calculations. Say for your first page is  001 and your second is 002.  You could use object id to populate the map page field. Then if they are sequential you can populate an attribute with the page before and the page after.  Or page to the east, west, north or south. You only have 80 pages so even if you had to manually put in the page in a given direction it won't take that long. Then instead of relying on the function to tell you which page is in a given direction you can use a data driven label to read from a a given attribute that designates as such. We did this for transmission lines that span 400 miles.  It was more important for us to have the map pages represent the same scale and then travel the entire length of the line and always keep north to the north.  Sometimes the line would enter the page in the NW corner, sometime the middle of the west etc...it never seems to go straight for terribly long. ... View more

You could convert the dem to points.  it would give the points the value of each raster cell.  the end result would be the highest number indicates the highest point and so on.  You could also play with the colors for the DEM. If you open the layer properties and go to the symbology tab. For example I have a DEM of the Black Hills near Custer.  The low end is 4095 and the high is 6031 select Classified and give it say 20 classifications.   It will break it so that each group contains roughly 5% of the total number of values.  In the Black Hills DEM the top group has a range of 293 feet.  The bottom one has 163  another in the middle has only 75 feet of elevation change. If you hit the classify button you can then lengthen or narrow the range that would represent the ridge.  You can give it  distinct red color to really make it pop out.  You then draw your line along the ridge. I'm trying to find the best way to do this. I started by just placing points 1km apart on the highest point of the DEM for the mountain range, using an aspect map to easily see where the slope shifts. It worked pretty well for much of the range since the highest point is easy to determine. My plans were to then link up these points into a series of 1km polylines to analyze. It wasn't a perfect solution, but because much of the mountain range is very simple, it was workable. However, part of the mountain range has no clear single crest, and instead has a series of peaks. How to "draw" the crest between peaks isn't obvious. What I would like to do is draw a rough line parallel to the general trend of the mountain range, and then grab the highest DEM value orthogonal to each point of the line. This would easily give me something I would can feel confident calling the "ridge crest" of the mountain range, with less opportunity for human error than my current plan. Is there a way to do this? A tool to look orthogonally from a line I draw, grab the highest value from a DEM in that direction, and attribute it to the line (or a new layer)? I haven't found any direct or indirect ways to do this from my searches. Thanks a ton! ... View more

What I mean by copy and paste is you create the FIRST polygon in the size and area that you want.  Then you copy it and paste it and move the pasted polygon so it edge matches the first polygon. However, on seeing  your shoreline it would be quite messy. Possibly you could now create a new polygon of the desired size in a new feature.  Then use that new polygon to clip the original polygon.  You would have to rotate is and snap it to the edges of the remaining uncliped polygon. I cannot have overlapping polygons, if that's what you mean. I need to chop up a single snake of a polygon to separate adjoining polygons of equal area. Yes, this means that the polygons will touch but jiggle up and down the shoreline. I am hoping to choose this method instead of creating polygon at every certain distance along the shoreline to account for bays and inlets. I don't understand what you are saying about the copy and paste. I believe that would just replicate the issue, because I only have one polygon that I am trying to make say 200 polygons out of. The polygon was created originally from the shoreline, but applying a 500 m buffer, then splitting that buffer polygon by the original shoreline and excluding upland 500 m strip and islands. Attached is a PDF of the polygon I'm working with so you can get a better understanding. Thank you so much for your help! ... View more

Do your polygons need to go in a straight line? Are they following the shore line?  Meaning the polygons need to touch be their position may jiggle up and down as it follows the shoreline? Either way just simply use the copy and paste functions. It will reproduce your polygon perfectly.  Great for making map pages. Use snapping.  if they need to be perfectly lined up simply snap to an edge or a vertex. How was the original polygon generated?  Perhaps it would be more simple to redevelop the polygon but in a different manner so it is equal area. Perhaps you could post a screen capture of what your polygon looks like. I have a single polygon that follows a large stretch of shoreline, extending 500 m into the water (with a shape length of 3404910 ft and area of 2559460882 ft). From this single polygon, I want to create multiple polygons of equal area (1000 km2). I need to maintain the intricate boundaries of the polygon, as opposed to creating a grid. It has been suggested to use parcel editing, but I'm afraid the process to convert my polygon to topology to parcel fabric and back out to (something) for further geoprocessing might be beyond what I need. Is there any easier way to achieve this? ... View more