Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

‎06-20-2016

I have submitted an idea similar in nature to this. There needs to be a Domain Tool set for a variety of functions. I would like to see a tools for CREATING and EDITING. Right now if I need to make significant modifications to a domain it means exporting it (which sometimes does not work) making the changes in Access and them importing it back in (which also sometimes does not work) Rather than Creating a Domain in ArcCatalog IN a specific Database I would like to see stored domains in ArcCatalog. At least for custom domains. I have 6 domains I create for every new database I work with. I would love to see them stored in ArcCatalog or better yet in a Domain.style that I can take with me. I would like to see a tool where I can select a domain in a database and see all the Feature Classes and Fields it is assigned to. Currently the best way ( and best is a very bad choice of words) is to export a database as an XML file and then open it in ArcGIS Diagrammer. Which supposed is a replacement, but yet a downgrade, for the Database reporter we used to be able to use.

‎06-13-2016

I generally work with a number of different databases in multiple locations. I would really like to see the directory structure in the Add Data and Open GeoDatabase and the Open Windows. The Open window dialog at least shows the folder your starting in. But I feel it would be very beneficial to see a full path. Here is an example

‎06-09-2016

The issue with multiplying 1.1 times the number of years would be huge. multiply 1.1 times 5 years and that would be an increase of 5.5 times the size. Or rather 550% larger In excel we can calculate the new area and parameter and get it pretty close. I just tried it and the 5th year was very very close to doing the whole thing five times. 3 columns. Row 1 Len(A1) Area(B1) Buffer(C1) The first values for Len and Area come from you polygons. the first buffer is =((B2*1.1) -B2)/A2 this will fill in C2 A2 and B2 came from the polygosn for cell A3 =A2 * (1 + (C2/100)) then drag it down for cell B3 =B2*1.1 drag it down for cell C3 drag C2 down I did this with my example. By creating 5 buffers in ArcMAP the final increase was 3.939114292 by running this trough Excel I came up with 3.939114202 So I would think if you export your polygons with ObjectID, shape length and shape area you can calculate the 5 and 10 year buffer sizes rather quickly. then you can bring the table back in and with a join populate the 5 and 10 year buffers. However, I would say in Access we could build a calculation that would add up the new area and length and in a single iteration calculate the final buffer for 5 and 10 year.

‎06-09-2016

If you create a field to buffer by that is a Double type. Here is the formula you use in field calculator. (( [SHAPE_Area] * 1.1)- [SHAPE_Area])/ [SHAPE_Length] Just change the 1.1 value to what ever percentage change you want times 100

‎06-09-2016

Here is a simple formula. A1 = current area retrieved from Shape_Area L1 = current shape_Length D = buffer distance (what we are trying to find) % = how much you want to change. Shown as a number i.e. 10% = 1.10 etc A1 * % = A1 + (L1 x D) when moved around ((A1 x %) - A1)) = D L1 I tried it out on a lake before submitting. The area times 10% came out to 13791.312701 and the calculated result was 3.074344911282261549753763646194 for distance. The final area was 13820.829974. It is very close end polygon was 10.29 percent larger. You can even create a new double field and calculate the new buffer distance for your entire polygon set all at one time and then use toolbox to buffer everything at once. For reference. Here is the polygon I buffered.

‎06-09-2016

When using the data loader in ArcCatalog. You spend the time to map out the fields to load into which field. Then after setting it up to load you run it. Only to get the error message The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data. The only help it gives you is to tell you which OID OK WHAT FIELD is causing the error? We need the Error Message window to be more descriptive and specific.

‎06-09-2016

When using the data loader in ArcCatalog. You spend the time to map out the fields to load into which field. Then after setting it up to load you run it. Only to get the error message The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data. The only help it gives you is to tell you which OID OK WHAT FIELD is causing the error? We need the Error Message window to be more descriptive and specific.

‎06-09-2016

What I would like to see is the ability to give vertices in a polyline or along the edge of a polygon attributes or weight. What I would want to use it mostly for would be as an anchor point for a label. In many cases dynamic labeling works fine. But often a label for a road appears in a bad spot and is mixing in with important symbols. I would like to see the ability to give vertices the attribute to be an anchor point for a label along a polyline. Give it a weight so to speak such that the label along the line will try to go to that point first. What I do now is I created a point feature I call label block. basically just a point feature with a feature weight of 1000 so labels do not generate in a specific spot. But sometimes this interferes with other labels.

‎05-05-2016

By defaul the color for a trace is every thing a single colr whether it be Drawings or Selection as the Results format What I would like to see is a unique color for each trace path from a flag. Exapmle. I put a flag on each Sub Bay in a substation. Perform a downstream trace. Each feeder on that substaion would show up in a different color. Just like adding unique values to a symbology. It would be even better if we could color code them based on an attribute.

‎03-21-2016

I would like to see an editing mode such that when certain features are DELETED they are automatically copied to a sepearate feature class in a separate feature dataset. Example. When editing a clients system we often get requests to delete this or that. Sometimes they come back and say hey where did this street light go or that fuse? We can then pull up the delete history and tell them exactly when they told us to delte this freature. Currently we get most of our updates from clients as PDF attachements in email. At least with this type of system I can look at the deleted freature and see when it was deleted then go throught the appropiate PDF's to see when it was deleted. Or rather than a separate edit mode have a new Delete Button that when pressed will delete features and if they are in the appropite set of features it delete, copy them to a dataset and stamp them with the date, time and userr.

‎03-21-2016

I would like to see an editing mode such that when certain features are DELETED they are automatically copied to a sepearate feature class in a separate feature dataset. Example. When editing a clients system we often get requests to delete this or that. Sometimes they come back and say hey where did this street light go or that fuse? We can then pull up the delete history and tell them exactly when they told us to delte this freature. Currently we get most of our updates from clients as PDF attachements in email. At least with this type of system I can look at the deleted freature and see when it was deleted then go throught the appropiate PDF's to see when it was deleted. Or rather than a separate edit mode have a new Delete Button that when pressed will delete features and if they are in the appropite set of features it delete, copy them to a dataset and stamp them with the date, time and userr.

‎03-14-2016

There are a number of possible options. I have done a lot of work with AutoCAD files. Do you have a range of numbers or are the all single digit numbers? if they are single digit simply do a search by attribute for TextString = '1' or TextString = '2' etc. Or take your file and export the table to a text file. Select the TextString column and press the Sort A to Z button. Excel will sort your data by Integers first, then entries that start with a decimal then by those that are a string but start with a number and then by those that start with a Character. To be more technical about it Excel will sort by pure numbers first and then by lowest ASCII code value. i.e. ALT 034 is " or ALT 033 is ! so it would sort the ! first. All that aside. Now you can delete all the other columns in your Excel table other than the one with the numbers. Below is an example of what I did in Excel. Pure numbers are sorted first then lowest ASCII character. Now simply Delete all the rows in the table that are larger than a number. Save your table. Bring it back into ArcGIS and join the NumberColumn to the TextString keeping only matching numbers. Export the joined Table as a new feature class. IF your lower case characters are only single characters. IF your feature with the TextString is a ShapeFile you can add a through z to the bottom of your number column in Excel and it should result in a case sensitive result. NumberColumn 0.1002 1004 1005 9999999 !<1009_16 "100 .1002_17 1001 15

‎03-14-2016

Alternatively to that you can right click on the MXD in ArcCatalog and select Set Data Source But you may still have issues with it being a 9.3 MXD

‎03-01-2016

This is common and I cannot for sure cite the reason but I think it is because new versions of ArcGIS are not 100% compatible with old MXD's There are three things you can do that typically solve the issue. Even if you save an MXD with a new version it still can be an issue. Try running MXD doctor on the MXD's. when you run it have it create new MXD's This typically works. Create brand new MXD's from the ground up. Least desirable as it consumes a lot of time. On the other hand you can also create a new mxd by grouping all your features and then saving the group as a Layer file. Then from a blank new session paste the layer files. However, this is what I do and it works. From your MXD go to the layout view. Select all the elements and then COPY. Start a new session of ArcGIS. Go to the layout view. Grab the data frame and move it off to the side. Resize the paper as to what you want and paste the copied elements. Save the MXD. To me this is best as it will not only transfer your features, but it will transfer your labels and you layout.

‎02-08-2016

Often in Electric GIS we draw 2 or 3 phase lines as a single line. Often a singel phase will break away for a little bit and come back to the ohter 1 or 2 phases and join back up. This creates a LOOP and a variety of funcitons will not work such as setting flow direction, tracing downstream, exporting to an outage managment program. What we need is a third Geometric Network Attribute. We have Enabled and Ancillary Role. We need something like Manual Flow direction. Perhaps something that will set flow direction for the selected line to digitized direction. The existing tool only works for Enterprise GIS and on the entire system. For it to work we would first need a tool to set digitized direction to Flow Direction. Fix the lines in quesition and then set flow to digitized direction. And we would need it to work outside of a Enterprise Network

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Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Re: Domain to Domain tool

Show directory structure in Add Data in window

Re: buffer distance

Re: buffer distance

Re: buffer distance

The field is too small to accept the amount of data...WHAT FIELD

The field is too small to accept the amount of data...WHAT FIELD

Vertices with attributes or weight

Geometric Network color traces

Automatic copy of deleted features

Automatic copy of deleted features

Re: How do I select by attribute to get the numbers from the attribute table list that has mixed strings/numbers ?

Re: MXD opens in 9.3 but not 10.2

Re: MXD opens in 9.3 but not 10.2

Manually Specify Flow Direction for an Electric Feature

Re: Store username of logged in user when completi...

Create Links in PDF

Load Data into a Feature Class should only show ma...

Print Layout from Pro without defaulting to Map Se...

Re: Branch Versioning vs Traditional

Electric Generation and Transmission