Under the Spatial Statistics Tools, under Utilities, there is a tool called Export Feature Attribute to ASCII.
This tool will write out a .dbf Attribute Table to ASCII, thereby negating my previous bitching about it. You can choose which columns to write out, and you can choose the delimiter.
Great, Way to make me feel dumb, arc. I can still complain that this tool is hidden where it is - why
In ArcCatalog, if you've just created a new layer in ArcMap, it may not appear until you refresh the list. To refresh the list, use F5.
Labels
You can label features (ugh, an arc word...) with their attributes (ugh, another arc word). There is a toolbar for it.
You might need to be in an open Edit Session for this to work.
View -> Toolbars -> Labeling
The first icon is the Label Manager.
Linear referencing: point location along the line as an alternative to expressing the location using an xy coordinate. Useful, for example, for measuring distance along a stream.
An Overview of Linear Referencing
Here are steps outlining a way to put hatch marks (with distance labels) on a polyline (e.g. following a stream).
1. When you create the polyline shapefile in arc catalog, you need to
BibTeX, I hate you for making me feel stupid. But I love you because you are going to make my life a lot easier. right? Right?! RIGHT??!!
1. JabRef databases are saved in .bib format, which are just .txt files and can be opened with WordPad or vi or whatever. They might have a bunch of extra crap in them like full abstracts, the notes you typed into JabRef, whatever. Export the entries for your
.e00 files are from an older version of arc. a simpler time. but now it is complicated to open them.
I ended up importing some .e00 files that were in a .tar.Z file (1996 USGS Open report) in a very roundabout manner, and later found some other more straightforward procedures (but can't figure out how to get those to work with my version of Arc). I'll just post them all here.
1. Official
Simple:
Toolbox -> Spatial Analyst Tools -> Surface -> Contour
Specify input raster, output name, contour interval.
Creating contours in spatial analyst
This is how I got an xyz table of a bunch of points. (There is probably a better way out there.)
1. Using arc catalog, create a shapefile of points. Then add columns to the attribute table, x, y
2. In arcmap, start an edit session and click away on the points.
3. End and save edit session, I think.
4. Right click on shapefile in Table of Contents column and open Attribute Table. All of the
While hunting around for some guidance in producing a slope map (a matter of a few mouse clicks), I came across this page [aspect-slope map], which is useful because it gave an example of how to implement the following things:
Styles (predefined colors, symbols, map elements, etc.)
Slope map (with link to how it works)
Aspect map
Reclassify: redefine the default number and width of display bins
It's only been a 15 year hiatus but i am now seriously working on a .tex file.
Although I have no problem with brute-force typing in equations, the lazy part of me wishes there were something that would take the MathType output and generate the equation code. Just for efficiency's sake, you know? There are a lot of equations.
I found this thing, which helps. You have to click in the symbols,