Latest Contributions by JackJenkins

I need to re-structure my script so the line & feature class creation happen in functions rather than the being spelled out in the main part of my script. I then, need to separate the function into a separate file and make the adjustments necessary in the main script to allow it to still utilize the functions. My script; # Use a .txt file to generate a line shapefile import arcpy from collections import defaultdict import pandas as pd  outFolder = "C:\\Data" arcpy . env . workspace = outFolder #Read textfile and store in dictionary df = pd . read_csv ( r "C:\\Data\\WalkingPaths.txt" , header = None , names =[ "WalkingPath" , "X" , "Y" ])   d = defaultdict ( list ) for index , row in df . iterrows ():         d [ row [ "WellPath" ]]. append ( arcpy . Point ( row [ "X" ], row [ "Y" ])) #Create feature class fc = "WalkingPaths.shp" spatRef = arcpy . SpatialReference ( 26913 ) arcpy . CreateFeatureclass_management ( out_path = outFolder , out_name = fc , geometry_type = "POLYLINE" , spatial_reference = spatRef ) arcpy . AddField_management ( in_table = fc , field_name = "WalkingPath" , field_type = "TEXT" ) #Insert polylines and attribute insertCursor = arcpy . da . InsertCursor ( fc , [ "SHAPE@" , "WalkingPath" ]) for ranch , points in d . iteritems (): #d.items() in python 3         insertCursor . insertRow ([ arcpy . Polyline ( arcpy . Array ( points )), ranch ]) del insertCursor ... View more

Through a plethora of trials and research, I finally was able to get a script to work. My original question encompassed me needing to take an .mxd and create a PDF mapbook document that will contain a map for each county in the counties FC. Then, I needed to change the title of each map to the name of the county being shown. Lastly, I need to scale the map a bit so it shows an area just a bit larger than the actual extent. The following script works great. I hope this will help others in the future;     import arcpy , os from arcpy . mapping import * countiesPath = "C:\\Data\\COUNTIES.shp" pdfPath = "C:\\Data\\COCounties.pdf" mxdPath = "C:\\Data\\Counties.mxd" mxd = MapDocument ( mxdPath ) dataFrame = ( mxdPath , "COUNTIES" )[ 0 ] listLayers = ListLayers ( mxd ) finalPDF = PDFDocumentCreate ( pdfPath ) df = ListDataFrames ( mxd , "Layers" )[ 0 ] for layer in listLayers :     if layer . name == "COUNTIES" :         with arcpy . da . SearchCursor ( layer , "COUNTY" ) as cursor :             for row in cursor :                 countyName = row [ 0 ]                 whereClause = "COUNTY='" + countyName + "'"                 arcpy . SelectLayerByAttribute_management ( layer , "NEW_SELECTION" , whereClause )                 df . zoomToSelectedFeatures ()                 arcpy . SelectLayerByAttribute_management ( layer , "CLEAR_SELECTION" )                 df . scale *= 1.5                 titleItem = ListLayoutElements ( mxd , "TEXT_ELEMENT" , "title" )[ 0 ]                 titleItem . text = "Map of: " + countyName + " COUNTY"                 countyPDF = r "C:\\Data" + countyName + ".pdf"                 ExportToPDF ( mxd , countyPDF , "PAGE_LAYOUT" , resolution = 600 , df_export_width = 1100 , df_export_height = 800 )                 finalPDF . appendPages ( countyPDF )                 os . remove ( countyPDF ) finalPDF . saveAndClose () del finalPDF del mxd ... View more