Good morning all. I am trying my hand at building re-usable models to help me speed up map assembly. What seemed like an initially great idea - visually processing data - is turning into a nightmare.
The ModelBuilder (MB) crashes on a pretty simple sequence, and takes down ArcGIS and ArcCatalog with it.
I think I have narrowed down the point at which the crash occurs, but need some help figuring out how to fix the problem or avoid it.
I begin with a pair of shapefiles with features that overlap geographically, buffer each of them with 2000 distance, union the two resulting buffer files, and dissolve the resulting union feature set into 1 overall polygon. So far so good.
The problem seems to crop up when I branch off that resulting feature set into two directions. One direction leads to creating a minimum bounding geometry envelope, a rectangle, that will form the extent for my intended map. The other direction leads to a clip function, that uses the resulting polygon feature as a clip feature for another input stream, a second input stream of other data.
I want to achieve a set of points, lines and polygon features all clipped to the same dissolved polygon result from above.
I can eliminate the first branch, the minimum bounding geometry envelope, and the clip seems to work. Or I can eliminate the clip and the bounding envelope seems to work. Just not both.
Any ideas what is happening here? The help files and tutorials clearly show branching of output to act as input to more than 1 direction in subsequent steps, but those help files are resolutely silent on how to correctly set them up without crashing.
Thanks,
Russell Collier
ps: I am not a programmer, though I can tweak scripts at need, and understand some basics of programming.
The ModelBuilder (MB) crashes on a pretty simple sequence, and takes down ArcGIS and ArcCatalog with it.
I think I have narrowed down the point at which the crash occurs, but need some help figuring out how to fix the problem or avoid it.
I begin with a pair of shapefiles with features that overlap geographically, buffer each of them with 2000 distance, union the two resulting buffer files, and dissolve the resulting union feature set into 1 overall polygon. So far so good.
The problem seems to crop up when I branch off that resulting feature set into two directions. One direction leads to creating a minimum bounding geometry envelope, a rectangle, that will form the extent for my intended map. The other direction leads to a clip function, that uses the resulting polygon feature as a clip feature for another input stream, a second input stream of other data.
I want to achieve a set of points, lines and polygon features all clipped to the same dissolved polygon result from above.
I can eliminate the first branch, the minimum bounding geometry envelope, and the clip seems to work. Or I can eliminate the clip and the bounding envelope seems to work. Just not both.
Any ideas what is happening here? The help files and tutorials clearly show branching of output to act as input to more than 1 direction in subsequent steps, but those help files are resolutely silent on how to correctly set them up without crashing.
Thanks,
Russell Collier
ps: I am not a programmer, though I can tweak scripts at need, and understand some basics of programming.