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Tips and Tricks
Timothy R Weisenburger ESRI
Robert Siciliano USFWS
Overview
Topics
Productive editing techniques
Solving feature adjustment problems
Common asked questions
Editing coincident features - Topology
Format
Each topic followed by a software demonstration,
Help & helpful things
Context Sensitive help
On command in pulldown menu
or button on toolbar, click the
What's This ? tool
On command in context menu -
highlight command, press Shift +
F1
On control in dialog box, click
What's This ? button from top of
the dialog box
Editing Documentation
Editing in ArcMap book
Training Course
Data Production and Editing
Techniques
Productive editing techniques
Typical challenges when editing features
Sketching efficiently
Managing feature selections
Parcel Zoning
Use the Select “next” function
Select feature, then press the N key
Must point to first feature within the Selection
tolerance
100 pixels
Snapping challenge #1
How can you visualize the snapping
environment while you’re editing?
Snapping distance
View by depressing "T" shortcut key
Snapping challenge #2
How can you get more control over how features
snap to one another?
Parcels: Vertex
or
Zoning: Edge
Snapping tolerance and priority
Set snapping tolerance in the Editing
Options dialog
Or use the Snap Tolerance tool to
interactively set the tolerance.
You can also:
Prioritize layers in the Snapping
Environment dialog
Snap tolerance tool
27 pixels
Remember:
• Press the ‘Spacebar’ to temporarily suspend snapping
• Use the ‘V’ shortcut key to locate where vertices are
Snapping challenge #3
How can you over-ride the snapping
environment?
Snap to vertex, edge
or endpoint of features
irregardless of snapping
environment
OR
Avoid snapping to vertex,
edge or endpoint of features
even though snapping
environment is set
Snap To Feature
Snapping on-the-fly
Overrides snap environment
settings
Snap to feature geometry
without setting individual snap
agents
Snap to midpoint of a line or
polygon boundary
Snapping challenge #4
How can you rotate a selected line feature on one end
point and snap the other end to another feature?
Misaligned street feature Rotated street feature
Snapping point
You can also hold the Ctrl key
down and use the Edit Tool to Pivot point
move selection anchors
Demonstration
Review
¾ Sketching features using multiple tools and functions
Shortcut keys, unit abbreviation
CAD drawing
or Coverage
Displacement
Source
Links
Destination
Spatial Adjustment
Located on Spatial Adjustment toolbar
Commands & Tools to modify coordinate locations of
your data.
Adjustment methods used to:
•Differentially scale, skew, rotate and translate data
•Stretch or warp features
•Moves end vertices of
features in layer to the
ends of adjacent layer
Remember to create the correct
number of links for the
transformation method
Feature adjustment challenge #3
How do you adjust multiple layers with the
same set of links?
Adjusting Multiple Layers
To adjust multiple layers:
Load layers into ArcMap
From Set Adjust Data
Specify adjustment layers
To reuse links
Save to text file
Use links menu
Save Link File
Feature adjustment challenge #3
How can you migrate attribute values from one
feature to another?
Attribute transfer
Interactively transfer attributes between features
Match common fields between layers
Set source and target layers
Specify fields to transfer
Option to transfer geometry
Demonstration
Review
4
Creating & filling donut holes in polygons
Creating a Donut hole:
Double click on the feature to
modify shape
Click on the Sketch tool
Right click to ‘Finish Part’
Sketch the hole feature
Filling the donut hole
Add a feature where you want
the hole
Select that “Holed” feature
Choose Editor menu -> Clip
Choose ‘Discard the area that
intersects’ option
Removing donut holes in polygons
Removing a Donut hole:
Double click on the feature to modify it’s
shape
Open the Sketch Properties
Select Layer
Topology
Topology to
to edit
edit Editing
Editing coincident
coincident geometry
geometry
Polygons will be
deleted if you don’t
snap the node to the
edge of the polygon
Demonstration
Download developer samples
Additional developer tools and samples
If developer samples installed
http://arcgisdeveloperonline.esri.com/ArcGISDeveloper/default.asp
Additional training classes
Virtual Campus course
Creating and Editing Geodatabase Features with
ArcGIS 9
Creating and Editing Linearly Referenced Features with
ArcGIS 9
Creating and Editing Geodatabase Topology with
ArcGIS 9
Instructor – led training
Building Geodatabases II
Creating and Editing Parcels with ArcGIS
Introduction to ArcGIS II
Data Production and Editing Techniques
Open for Questions