Using the SELECT DATA Tool
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Having a single tool certainly does have its advantages, especially if all the functions of the tool are useful or required. Because a CAD file is potentially the container of multiple ArcGIS data sets, building an ArcGIS geoprocessing tool with a single CAD file as input that then branches out to include multiple tasks with the drawing’s contents can likewise be quite useful.
The SELECT DATA geoprocessing tool allows you to select feature classes from within a feature dataset. Since a CAD file is treated as an ArcGIS feature dataset in ArcGIS this is the perfect tool to use as the first task in a model involving a CAD file from which you will use more than one of the standard CAD feature classes (POINT, POLYLINE, POLYGON, ANNOTATION, or MULTIPATCH).
The difference between a geoprocessing model that just does something, and a geoprocessing tool, (to me) is that a geoprocessing tool has at least one exposed parameter as a variable. To enable your CAD file to be a single variable from which you access some of the POINT features and some of the POLYLINE from the drawing in some translation process, you can use the SELECT DATA tool.
The SELECT DATA geoprocessing tool allows you to select feature classes from within a feature dataset. Since a CAD file is treated as an ArcGIS feature dataset in ArcGIS this is the perfect tool to use as the first task in a model involving a CAD file from which you will use more than one of the standard CAD feature classes (POINT, POLYLINE, POLYGON, ANNOTATION, or MULTIPATCH).
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2 Comments:
What is the make and model of your phone as I'm looking for such a device.
Rob,
It is an MDA from T-Mobile.
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