Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Your over thinking it. Simply open the dwg in arcgis.  use the selection dialog to select the layer you want from the dwg (contours) then right click and export features and save as a shape file. IF you have a whole bunch of drawings that have the contour layer you can open them all in autocad at the same time.  if they come in as blocks you can explode them and then do an export and use the query to only export the contours. Chances are you the dwg will not be clean anyway and there will be some contours in a different layer and there will be some other things in the contours layer. I have some .dwg files and I would like to do the following: 1.  Convert .dwg files into .shp 2.  Then extract only the contours from the polyline feature class.  I would like to using python or scripts to do conversion but I'm not sure how.  Any scripts (python) samples would be great! Thanks, Winnie ... View more

I should mention I also had issues with the Sids.  I changed to using Bing Air and it would clip the raster to the visible extent. ... View more

I will surmise you have something like center lines from 3 different counties or regions etc.. Instead of using model builder perhaps you should simply use the the simple data loader. For the one that needs its coded values to be different you can create new attributes and update those attributes with the coded values you want. Hello all, I'm working on trying to merge three different road centerlines (different schema) layers into one layer in Model Builder.  I am able to do that but the only issue that I am experiencing is with one of the layers.  I am using domains in this layer and in the final outputted layer I need the coded value in one of the fields and the Description in a different field.  Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about this? Thanks! ... View more

No, public accounts can't provide a bing key. It is a bug that you are losing your bing map basemap in existing web maps. The issue is, saving any web map that currently has a bing basemap, the bing basemap will be removed. We have a fix for this that will go out at the end of next week. In the meantime, avoid the problem by not editing any of your web maps with bing until the fix is live. Sorry for any inconvenience. Mike ... View more

I guess I could if I was storing the package locally, but I'm going straight to AGOL. ... View more

You may find this thread has a solution. http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/78067-how-can-I-eliminate-quot-island-quot-raster-cells-from-a-layer?p=274563&viewfull=1#post274563 You'd need to do something to make the northeast area remain no-data. ... View more

Just search for that field while looping through the feature classes and then perform a describe on that searched field. thank you very much, I'm starting with arcpy. thanks ... View more

If you want to read the filePath property of the MapDocument, you can do this: mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\Project.mxd") print mxd.filePath However, from your previous thread, it sounds like you also might want to create a new blank mxd in your script. This is not possible. The arcpy.mapping module was designed so that it can be used to modify existing elements within already existing map documents. In other words, it helps with the automation of existing features but it can't be used to author new objects. It is possible to make changes to existing map documents and then save the changes out to a new file using the saveACopy method on the MapDocument or Layer objects. It also possible to author and save a blank mxd in the UI, and then reference it with arcpy.mapping.MapDocument. ... View more

Peter Goedbloed‌ Hi Peter,  Sorry for the late response. What I meant by the DWG to Shapefile tool is using the FME Safe software you are able to specify your input data set and the desired output data set. So for this conversion my input data set was Civil 3D (DWG) with tje output data set to shapefile. I hope that clarifies things for you.  Zach ... View more

Call a simple function: myMP=map.toMapFromStage(X,Y); ... View more

You  may need to use arc catalog and for each feature  set the default value for each attribute to nothing.  Essentially you are creating a new feature when you cut and it is making those values the default value. I use a graphical query to select polygons, cut the polygons with a border polyline and then remove "cut" polgyons outside the border polyline. Now, I need the attributes on the final result.  Any simple ways to do this?  Or, do I need another relation?    private function showSoils(event:MouseEvent):void    {     var cutPolyInside:Polygon = new Polygon;     var cutPline:Polyline = new Polyline;     geomArr = [];     geomArr2 = [];     geomArr.push(hostComponent.graphic.geometry);     var iPoly:Polygon = hostComponent.graphic.geometry as Polygon;     // convert the polygon into polyline for cutting     cutPline = polygonToPolyline(iPoly);     cutPline.spatialReference = new SpatialReference(102003);     try     {      queryFeaturesGraphical(hostComponent.graphic.geometry);     }     catch (error:Error)     {      msgVisible = false;      Alert.show(error.message);     }             function queryFeaturesGraphical(geom:Geometry):void     {      var queryParams:Query = new Query();      queryParams.returnGeometry = true;      var queryFields:String = "*";      queryParams.outFields = queryFields.split(",");      queryParams.outSpatialReference = hostComponent.map.spatialReference;      queryParams.geometry = geom;       queryParams.spatialRelationship = "esriSpatialRelIntersects";      var url:String = "http://gis.macombgov.org/ArcGIS/rest/services/FLEX2/Feature_Natural/MapServer/9";      var queryTask:QueryTask = new QueryTask(url);       queryTask.execute(queryParams, new AsyncResponder(onResult, onFault));          }         function onResult(featureSet:FeatureSet, token:XMLList = null):void     {              try      {                  for each (var graphic:Graphic in featureSet.features)       {          geomArr2.push(graphic.geometry);       }       beginCutting();      }      catch (error:Error)      {       msgVisible = false;       Alert.show(error.message);      }     }         function onFault(info:Object, token:Object = null):void     {      msgVisible = false;      Alert.show(info.toString());     }         function beginCutting():void     {      myGeometryService2.addEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.CUT_COMPLETE, cutCompleteHandler);      myGeometryService2.cut(geomArr2,cutPline);     }         function cutCompleteHandler(event:GeometryServiceEvent):void     {        myGeometryService2.removeEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.CUT_COMPLETE, cutCompleteHandler);      msgVisible = false;      var relationParameters:RelationParameters = new RelationParameters();      relationParameters.geometries1 = myGeometryService2.cutLastResult.geometries;      relationParameters.geometries2 = geomArr;          relationParameters.spatialRelationship = RelationParameters.SPATIAL_REL_WITHIN;      myGeometryService2.addEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.RELATION_COMPLETE, relationCompleteHandler);      myGeometryService2.relation(relationParameters);     }            function relationCompleteHandler(event:GeometryServiceEvent):void     {      myGeometryService2.removeEventListener(GeometryServiceEvent.RELATION_COMPLETE, relationCompleteHandler);      var result:Array = event.result as Array;      // highlight the geometries within the polygon.      for each (var obj:Object in result)      {       var resultGraphic:Graphic = new Graphic(obj.geometry1);       resultGraphic.symbol = graphicSymbol2;       myGraphicsLayer.add(resultGraphic);            }     } ... View more

Thanks for the quick reply Leland Snyder We are essentially following Jillian Penney's  workflow above and getting the same error Josh received:  "A local copy could not be created. Bad syntax in request."  We have logs at fine level and did not see any blatant issues - in fact everything looked to check out ok but then seemed to revert back the replica two seconds later.   We earlier had a different error message and saw that some of the feature classes had 0 features in them and Arcmap choked on that, though with a somewhat more helpful message about not able to find a feature.  But that has been resolved and now onto the next ambiguous error. ... View more

Thank you very much! ... View more

So I think I have found a solution, although I don't understand why that happens. First I thought it's caused by the size of a shapefile that contains numerous polygons etc., but that didn't correspond with my case as there were, what, 30 polys in total... So, the solution is to jump into attributes tab (normally closed on the right bar), select the polygon (line or a point), right click and select "open table showing selection". That actually refresh the extisting attribute table you have opened and voila, it's there, whaiting to be edited. ... View more