Latest Contributions by PatrickMoulden

‎11-15-2013

Add a tool (w/ gui preferably) to get the attribute values for a set of selected features and use them in an interactive definition query dialog box which would allow the user to select which attributes to use for the querry and how to use them. If this is set up in gui it could also be used to visually analyse for trends within the selected data.

‎11-15-2013

I think this is more of an issue with Adobe, not ArcGIS. ben_vks workflow is the best way to do this that I know of.

‎11-15-2013

I think this is more of an issue with Adobe, not ArcGIS. ben_vks workflow is the best way to do this that I know of.

‎02-07-2013

Thanks for the tips! I will definitely try the workaround with the empty DWG file. However, since this issue spans multiple companies with different CAD and GIS techs involved in each organization (I am the lead GIS Analyst and DbM for this project) I might be better off hiring a LSP programmer or even learning the language myself than trying to explain the project's custom coordinate system to the ever changing list of people involved. I have started to push ArcGIS for AutoCAD, (going as far as to have every new CAD machine that we build have it installed). However, do to some compatibility issues with different CAD software versions and the fact that even within my organization some of the CAD techs can be very reluctant to adapt new technologies, progress in getting it widely used is somewhat slow.

‎11-29-2012

How does spatial referencing information get carried over in .dwg format when exporting out of a .mxd? My reason for asking is that I recently been having issues with data exported from ArcMap to CAD (Export to CAD tool) and having the receiving CAD tech claim that the resulting DWG file comes in with no projection or coordinate system. I do not have CAD software on my computer so it is difficult to investigate exactly what is going on. The ESRI help resources that I found on this topic seem to focus more on bringing CAD data into ArcMap.

‎10-05-2012

Hi Patrick, Do you receive an error when you attempt to disable editor tracking on the one feature class? How large is the File Geodatabase? If it is relatively small, can you copy/paste the feature classes into a new File Geodatabase to see if it exhibits the same behavior? I receive no error message when attempting to disable editor tracking on what has grown to a list of 3 feature classes, nothing seems to happen at all. The geodatabase is quite large (around 60MB), I attempted exporting the XML workspace and loading it into a new file geodatabase but no luck there, just replicates the problem.

‎10-05-2012

Long story short, I have to disable editor tracking on a v.10.1 file geodatabase so a client who is still on version 10.0 can access the data. I have attempted this both by using right click>Manage>Disable Editor Tracking and unchecking the editor tracking in the properties dialog box. In most scenarios this seems to work but later editor tracking will spontaneously re-enable on certain feature classes and with one feature class in particular I am unable to disable editor tracking at all. Any Ideas will be much appreciated. Thanks, PM

‎09-12-2012

I understand the need to release bug fixes and software updates within service packs to keep things organized. However, there are multiple bugs within ArcGIS software that cause serious productivity issues and that have no known workarounds. My proposal is that ESRI release bug fixes individually inbetween service pack releases to help solve the more serious bugs. These fixes can be removed once a service pack containing the fix is released but I feel it is important for these problems to be fixed as soon as possible. I would also like it if ESRI would offer a feed or blog service allowing users to monitor the status of known bugs and interact directly with ESRI staff working on the problem outside of the ArcGIS forums environment. It is not possible for us to just accept being told that the bug will be fixed with the next service pack and just not work until that SP is released which may be months away.

‎09-12-2012

I understand the need to release bug fixes and software updates within service packs to keep things organized. However, there are multiple bugs within ArcGIS software that cause serious productivity issues and that have no known workarounds. My proposal is that ESRI release bug fixes individually inbetween service pack releases to help solve the more serious bugs. These fixes can be removed once a service pack containing the fix is released but I feel it is important for these problems to be fixed as soon as possible. I would also like it if ESRI would offer a feed or blog service allowing users to monitor the status of known bugs and interact directly with ESRI staff working on the problem outside of the ArcGIS forums environment. It is not possible for us to just accept being told that the bug will be fixed with the next service pack and just not work until that SP is released which may be months away.

‎08-24-2012

Hello, Not sure if this will help, Approximately 12 months ago I was working for a company as a GIS SDE Administrator, this required a lot of after hours work in both ArcGIS Desktop and Catalogue from home over a VPN, I found it crazy slow,. The best work around I came up with, although not the most elegant solution, is to RDP in to my workstation in the office (you will need to put a big sticker on it asking people not to turn it off). I found this works extremely well, because even slow network speeds really don�??t affect the redraw performance because the PC in the office is doing all the work. Admittedly if you were doing lots of editing it might still be frustrating as there is still a lag, but but if you can swing it RDP into a PC in the office. Hope this helps Matt I have come up with a similar solution to this problem at our office where we have a developer who works from home. In my situation I created a virtual machine on a server that our developer could remote desktop into. This allows the connection to that machine only have to handle the interface while the data is handled directly over our network.

‎08-10-2012

The editing toools offered in 10 are nice but I think there can be a few improvements. The templates allow the user to set default attribute values but why not set default geometry attribute such as area and shape? I know that a similar affect is possible using the copy and paste features but honestly this gets old pretty fast. Being able to define a features geometry before it is created would also help in the automation of many digitization processes. For example if you have well defined set of variables, say you need a rectangular polygon adjacent to a line at certain intersections and that polygons area is derived from the type and angle of that intersection and you need that polygon's rotation matched to that of the original line, you could set up a model or python script to define these variables and automatically generate the necessary features for your study area. This becomes particularly important when your features of interest are not static, such as a proposed natural gas pipeline that gets routed and rerouted numerous times throughout the alignment proposal process and you need to maintain standardized workspaces that are generated for exhibits that are needed frequently (generally several a week) throughout the permiting process.

‎07-23-2012

Does anyone know how I can edit a polygons vertices while maintaining the existing area? I have a featureclass containing polygons for additional construction workspace driven by features that intersect a proposed pipeline. Each workspace needs to be a specific area depending on the nature of the intersecting feature. Currently these workspaces are rectangular but will need to conform to the boundary of each respective intersecting feature.

‎06-25-2012

Anyone figure this out yet? I am having similar issues with several feature classes, all of which clearly intersect at multiple locations (the reason I am reluctant to manually digitize them) but the output is consistently empty no matter which parameters I adjust.

‎06-25-2012

Its also possible to do this by dissolving the lines in your sewer network, executing two separate Features Vertices to Point functions (one for upstream points and one for downstream nodes), at this point if your nodes represent features that are matched in another layer (such as Manholes) you can use a spatial join to import those structure IDs into your new upstream and downstream nodes layers. Once your upstream and downstream features have IDs you can use another series of joins to add the ID's to your original (un-dissolved) sewers layer. It could look something like this [ATTACH=CONFIG]15459[/ATTACH] Note that this model is not a working version of what we came up as a solution, the final version was much more complicated and had to be completed with python to be flexible with incomplete data sets and poorly interconnected sewer features.

‎06-19-2012

Try producing a custom map grid to match what you want to see in the dataframe. This frame does not have to be visible to be used by data driven pages It is also possible to use Python to generate a map grid based off of your dataframe's extent coordinates. I also may not fully understand the problem that you are having

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Latest Contributions by PatrickMoulden

Selection to Definition Query

Re: Ability to export to a PDF with layers able to be toggled on/off within PDF document.

Re: Ability to export to a PDF with layers able to be toggled on/off within PDF document.

Re: How does spatial referencing information get carried over in .dwg format?

How does spatial referencing information get carried over in .dwg format?

Re: Unable to disable Editor Tracking on Version 10.1 File Geodatabase

Unable to disable Editor Tracking on Version 10.1 File Geodatabase

Faster response from ESRI on bug fixes and updates in between service packs

Faster response from ESRI on bug fixes and updates in between service packs

Re: ArcGIS across VPN network, very slow.

Modify specific geometries in respect to area, length, and rotation

Editing polygons while maintaining specific areas

Re: Intersecting lines returns no records

Re: Automatically assign downstream Node IDs to upstream pipes

Re: DATA DRIVEN PAGES!!!! I COULD SCREAM!!!!!

Faster response from ESRI on bug fixes and updates...

Faster response from ESRI on bug fixes and updates...

Selection to Definition Query

Modify specific geometries in respect to area, len...