Over on Stack Exchange GIS I have posted some code to demonstrate that what Cyrille is trying to do will work if you do the Make Feature Layer with a where clause by starting on a shapefile. It does not if you start on a file geodatabase feature class. Consequently, it appears to be a bug with either Make Feature Layer or Project. The workaround of using Copy Features on the file geodatabase feature class to create an equivalent shapefile first is not desirable so I think the next step should be to find/submit a bug report on this. I think Nobbir's workaround should work too, and be preferable because it does not duplicate data, but I don't think Cyrille's procedure should not work on a feature class when it does on a shapefile. - Graeme
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