arcplus

A few little things Esri's arcpy and related should have.

2017-09-07: transferred ownership of the repository from Matt's personal account to the newly minted @envygeo github organization and @mhw-at-yg work account. I don't know if this will have impact on repo watchers stars or not. Bookmarks work seamlessly tho'.

Quick Start

1. Open a pip and an ArcGIS python enabled command shell, then install current comtypes and arcplus:

   pip install https://github.com/enthought/comtypes/archive/master.zip
   pip install https://github.com/maphew/arcplus/archive/master.zip
   

2. Run python and:

   d:\>python
   Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
   >>> import arcplus   
   
   >>> for fc in arcplus.listAllFeatureClasses(r"D:\scratch.gdb"):
   ...     print fc
   ...
   Looking in D:\scratch.gdb for "*"
   Administration_Boundaries\LI_1210009_2
   Administration_Boundaries\Yukon_Ditch_ENV080
   base_toponomy\Highway_shields
   base_toponomy\Physiographic_text
   base_toponomy\Places_text
   annotation_attrib_test
   fraser_peak_GPXtoFeatures
   ...
   

arcplus.listAllFeatureClasses

Recursively list all Feature Classes in a geodatabase or coverage (normal listFeatureClasses method does not recurse)

See Listing all feature classes in File Geodatabase, including within feature datasets?

arcplus.ao

See Use Arcobjects from Python

...not working reliably yet!

>>> from arcplus import ao

>>> ao.GetLibPath()
u'C:\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.3\\com\\'

>>> dir(ao)
['ArcCatalog_GetSelectedTable',
 'ArcMap_AddTextElement',
 'ArcMap_GetEditWorkspace',
 'ArcMap_GetSelectedGeometry',
 'ArcMap_GetSelectedTable',
 'CLSID',
 'CType',
 'GetApp',
 'GetCurrentApp',
 'GetDesktopModules',
 'GetLibPath',
 'GetModule',
 'GetStandaloneModules',
 'InitStandalone',
 'Msg',
 'NewObj',
 'Standalone_CreateTable',
 'Standalone_OpenFileGDB',
 'Standalone_OpenSDE',
 'Standalone_QueryDBValues',
 '__builtins__',
 '__doc__',
 '__file__',
 '__name__',
 '__package__',
 '__path__',
 'ao']

Scripts

clip_all_layers.py

Clip all layers in map to the specified polygon layer. Command line usage:

clip_all_layers "path\to\Some map.mxd" path\to\data.gdb\clip_poly path\to\destination.gdb

Relative paths are interpreted relative to the mxd, not the current shell folder (ref). There's an example toolbox usage in the Tests folder.

Built to support building a map package with clippping.

GPXtoFeaturesXY.py

A small enchancement to Esri's GPXtoFeatures.py: store the original geographic coordinates as attributes.

metadata_batch_upgrade.py

Recursively walk through a GDB or workspace and upgrades the metadata record of any feature class found.

Regular upgrade tool can only do one FC at a time, and using the batch control is painful as you drill down into each dataset individually to drag and drop.

set_legend_descriptions.py

Set description property of Unique Value legend items from a lookup table. Enables having a legend with lengthy descriptions as well as the record values.

Adapted from Setting symbol descriptions of ArcMap layout legends from table?

TableToCSV.py

ArcGIS doesn't have an out of the box tool for exporting a table to text. Let's fix that [not working yet]

Inspiration: Export table to X,Y,Z ASCII file via arcpy

SysAdmin

uninstall-ALL-ArcGIS-products.bat

Uninstall ArcGIS products using the Windows Installer msiexec, feeding it a text file with Product IDs. Will not work for programs like ArcPad which don't use msi to install in the first place.