ET GeoTools Installation

ET GeoTools Installation

Installation instructions

Note that you have to be logged as an Administrator on the machine you are installing ET GeoTools

If you have a previous version of ET GeoTools installed, uninstall it first.
Unzip ETGeoToolsXX.zip - the file contains a single executable
Run ETGeoToolsXX.exe - a simple installation wizard will guide you through the process.
- The best location to install the files is the hard disk where ArcGIS resides or your system disk

Files installed:

ETGeoToolsXX.dll - contains all the functionality of ET GeoTools
CM_Draw.dll - the tool menu containing the sketch tools
CM_GDS.dll - the tool menu containing the generalize, densify and smooth tools
CM_Split.dll - the tool menu containing the polyline split tools
CM_Select.dll - the tool menu containing the selection tools
ET GeoTools.chm - ET GeoTools User Guide
license1.txt - the license agreement
readme.txt - read me file
reg_ETGeoTools.exe - executable that registers all the components of ET GeoTools.

If you restart ArcMap the ET GeoTools, ET Attributes and ET Gogo toolbars should be already loaded. Go to View ==> Toolbars and select the toolbar you want to use.

If the toolbars are not available follow the procedure below:

In ArcMap

Click the Tools menu and click Customize (right click on any tool bar will do the same)
Click the toolbars tab of the Customize dialog
Click the Add From File button
Navigate to the folder where ETGeoToolsXX.dll is located, select it and click open
In the added objects dialog box click OK
In the list of toolbars check ET GeoTools, ET Attributes and ET Cogo

Note:

ET GeoTools runs in DEMO mode until registered.

The Demo mode has the following limitations
- Some of the features are free - do not have any restrictions with the DEMO version. See ET GeoTools - free tools for a list
- The rest of the functions have restriction of 100 features in the target layer

See How to Register ET GeoTools for registration information