Tips, Tricks

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Tips, Tricks Shortcuts in ArcGIS
with Gary Moody
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Session Topics

• ArcCatalog
• Table of Contents
• Map Navigation
• Editing in ArcMap
• Layer Files yes again

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ArcCatalog Tips

• Options
• Turn off unused file types
• Create Layer files
• Custom tool bars

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ArcCatalog Tips

• Options

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ArcCatalog Tips

• Turn off unused file types

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ArcCatalog Tips

• Create Layer Files

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ArcCatalog Tips

• Custom Toolbars

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ArcCatalog Tips

• EXERCISES

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Table of Contents

• Expand/Contract selected items Left/Right
  arrows
• Expand/Contract all the items Ctrl click
• Activate data frame F11 or Alt click a data
  frame
• Open properties dialog box of a selected item
  F12 or Enter key

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Map Navigation in ArcMap

• Zoom in out Roll the mouse wheel backward
  forward. Hold the Ctrl button for a finer zoom.
• Center map Click mouse wheel
• Pan Hold down mouse wheel drag
• Zoom in box Ctrl click mouse wheel drag
• Temporarily change to Zoom in tool Hold down Z
  key
• Temporarily change to Zoom Out tool Hold down X
  key
• Temporarily change to Pan tool Hold down C key
• Nudge or scroll map Arrow keys

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Map Navigation in ArcMap cont.

• Go back to the previous extent - lt key
• Go forward to the next extent - gt key
• Zoom to Full Extent Insert key
• Zoom to layers extent Alt click layer name
  in the table of contents

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Map Navigation in ArcMap cont.

• EXERCISES

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Editing in ArcMap

• Use the E key to toggle between the Sketch tool
  and Edit tool
• Use the N key to toggle through features within
  the selection tolerance
• Hold the Spacebar down to suspend snapping
• Use the T key to view the snapping tolerance
• Ctrl Delete will delete the sketch you have
  started
• F2 will finish a sketch
• Select a feature use the Ctrl key to move the
  selection anchor
• Use the O key to set an offset when using the
  Trace tool

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Editing in ArcMap cont.

• Set the Sticky Move tolerance in the Editing
  Options dialog box
• Right click to snap to feature geometry
• Use Ctrl P to create a segment parallel to an
  existing one
• Use Ctrl L to create a segment at an exact
  length

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Layer Files

• Layer Files reference geographic data stored on a
  disk. You can think of them as a cartographic
  view of your geographic data.
• They are separate files on a disk and have a .lyr
  extension.
• Layer a reference to a data source such as a
  coverage, geodatabase feature class, raster and
  so on.
• In ArcGIS 9, layers can be used as inputs to
  geoprocessing tools. Layers can be stored in map
  documents (.mxd) or saved individually as layer
  files (.lyr).

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Layer Files
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Editing in ArcMap Layer Files

• EXERCISES