Moving county labels to the edge of a state
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Moving county labels to the edge of a state

The end user requested that I add county labels to an event map, but now the county labels are obscuring the important bits. How do I force them to move to the edges?

https://preview.redd.it/jhjuhfugfgah1.png?width=1561&format=png&auto=webp&s=03a1bcaf9654f21bde325d0b694f7256b4fa1166

And if anyone knows why Otsego, Nassau and Suffolk counties aren't labeled, that would be great. They are listed in the Attrib Table, so the name is in there...

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u/grimlock12 — 6 days ago
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Improving my revision and printing workflow

I have a map with about 45 layers of data, which gets output as 15 maps by combining layers in groups of 3. I have a Layout with the groups of layers in sub folders so I just have to click one group off and the next group on. So far so good. When it comes to output, I export to PDF, but I have to do that 15 times. When somebody wants me to change a font or a symbol, I have to export it, 15 times.

Is there a better way to do this?

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u/grimlock12 — 13 days ago
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Extracting strings from attribute tables

I've brought in a CSV, with a date field formated m/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss -05:00.
So there aren't leading zeros on the month and day, but the year is 4 digit. The data type is "timestamp offset."

Can I extract the year from this field within ArcGIS? SHOULD I do this within GIS or should I just fix it in Excel and reimport?

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u/grimlock12 — 20 days ago
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Any idea why these counties are unlabled?

I imported a shapefile of the counties from New York State's GIS clearing house, and activated labels on this layer, but 4 counties in the middle of the state are unlabled.
this has happened before but it was with the towns of Tioga County.

This map has confidential data so I would have to create a new project if I wanted to share the file, so I'm hoping someone will recognize this issue and have a fix.

u/grimlock12 — 27 days ago

There are multiple ways to skin this cat but I'm asking as a sanity check in case there is a more efficient way to go about it. The task is a tapered hole, in today's project, hexagonal. I don't have a draft angle because I was handed an existing part and I'm working from the calipers. It needs to be 1.65" deep, .138" flat to flat, at the top and .085" at the bottom.

I can extrude, and use the Taper angle feature there, but then I have to break out the trig.

I can extrude and use Draft, but back to trig.

Or I can use a Loft , but that involves creating an offset workplane, a new sketch, making sure all the reference geometry is set to Construction, etc.

Is there a simpler way to do this that I'm overlooking?

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u/grimlock12 — 2 months ago
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I want to create a heatmap based on a mailing list, and I would wager a steak dinner that GIS can do it but that's all I have so far.

I presume that I'll need to translate the addresses associated with each entry on the list into something GIS can recognize. What would that process be called so I can start to look it up?

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u/grimlock12 — 2 months ago