Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

I am wondering.  Are all the ArcGIS toolbox tools available when using ArcFM or are you restricted to use of ArcFM tools? I have been out of the box ESRI for 15 years and may be moving into an ArcFM world.  I have concerns about limiting my productivity until such a time as I get back up to speed. ... View more

The best I can think is to run Grid Index Feature tool. On your polygons.  You can specify exactly a 1 x 2 meter polygon. However they will be aligned north south etc. Then use the Select by location tool to select all grids that intersect the boundary and delete them. ... View more

I was going to say if it was only a couple dozen to just to it manually.  Final question before I get mathematical.  Are they all 4 corner rectangles ... View more

How many polygons are you talking about?  and are they all 3 x 5? ... View more

Do you only want one 1 x 2 polygon in the 3 x 5? If you want to completely fill the polygon you would need to change the size of your 1 x 2's  as the result would not be the same area, either a  1 x 2 would be cut down or exceed the boundary.  You could stack 1 x 2's 3 high but would either need to go 4 or 6 wide If you only want to create a single 1 x 2 in the middle of the 3 x 5 that's an easy fix.  ... View more

What a very interesting problem to solve. IF your only talking a few thousand shapes I have a simple solution.  Only have your polygons in the map Set up data driven pages with your polygons as the layer.  Make the outline of your polygons a nice thick layer and maybe even give them random colors for a fill. When setting up DDP sort by objectID  set up labels for the polygons with objectID right in the middle and big enough to see easily. Page set up to 8 1/2 by 11 with no margin. Export the DDP as PDF multiple sheets using a . ( find that tends to work better with large numbers) use lower resolution and faster output.  When they are all created combine the pdf't into a single pdf. then simply eyeball them.  you can use your arrow keys to move from one to the next pdf.  when you find one that is shaped like an L or a T then you address that situation. sounds cumbersome but you should be able to get to the point of browsing the PDF's in very short time, depending on how many polygons your talking.  If you lower the resolution and quality and only have the polygons on the map you can generate many thousands of PDF's very quickly. I have a more complicated mathematical idea in my head but I need to think on that. ... View more

Thanks thats a great suggestion.  I always appreciate people who can manipulate the given tools in ways they were not designed rather than a blank yes or no answer. I took your suggestion a step further.  I used a definition query to specify in the contour layer to be that elevation or less before running Intersect (Analysis) on it and it resulted in an irregular polygon.  Exported the model to a python script and added it as a tool.  it would read the nearest contour line to the point I placed and then add the height of the pole to get the source elevation.  example 984 Feet elevation plus 20 foot pole.  Selecting all contour lines less than or equal to 1004 feet..  Looks like this Then run the Intersect  and I get this. I am just going to go ahead and create polygons out of the contours so I can represent it with a filled in polygon for the end user. Thanks for thinking out of the box. ... View more

Pretty sure there is something in 3D analyst. I just don't have the experience to know what it is.  I have seen it used to fill in lakes to a given height to see where flow goes. etc... ... View more

I posted something similar some time ago. I would like to see an option where you can then press a hot key and it causes the center to expand or glow or something. The other idea I had on it was that once you select every thing, then where you go to grab the mass is now the spot thing will snap to or rotate or scale on. ... View more

I posted this same idea about a year ago.  I would REALLY like to see it happen.  I don't always use the find tool, but when I do it is always in the way. ... View more

If ESRI was to allow full access for one price Then ESRI would raise the price for everything to what the top level is now then A lot more people raise the outcry at the extra money The answer is simple.  IF you cannot do everything you want, then buy a more expensive licensing format. ... View more

You can have your system on two different servers or machines and set up multi node sites.  Your web adapter will direct incoming requests in a round robin fashion to send 1 request to Server1 and the next request to Server2 ... View more

Specify the coordinate system you want to use in a blank session. Add the features you want to calculate.  Create your Fields and use the calculate Geometry tool. Specify to use the coordinate system of the data frame. If you don't specify the projection before you add the data it will default the data frame to the projection of the data. You can also specify the data frame projection after you add the data. However, I don't think you really need to do that. Using the calculate Geometry tool if you select Decimal Degrees as you units. It will calculate it in Decimal Degrees.  I do this quite often in my State Plane projections and then use the resulting X,Y to generate new features using WGS84 ... View more

start ArcGIS Add data Add your AutoCAD drawing.  It will bring the title block with it. ... View more