ETValidateEdits

ET Validate Edits

Target layer: Polyline, Polygon, Point

Description: In ArcGIS 9.2 a per feature class XY Tolerance was introduced when working with geodatabase feature classes. All editing tasks performed on Personal and File Geodatabase feature classes are influenced by this tolerance. In essence all the coordinates are snapped to a coordinate grid defined for each feature class. In other words ArcGIS considers the coordinates that a closer then the XY Tolerance equal. This might be OK when the data is manipulated in ArcGIS, but if you want to export the data for use in some other package, there might be some inconsistencies.

The Validate Edits command goes through each feature of the edited dataset and ensures that all the coordinates are snapped to the coordinate grid.

Suggested workflow:

In the ET GeoTools Control Panel ==> Draw Tab ==> Draw Nodes panel, uncheck the "Use true coordinates comparison" check box. This will force the Draw Nodes tool to use the precision of the edited dataset for coordinate comparison.
Do your edits.
When you want to finalize your data, go to the Control Panel and check the "Use true coordinates comparison" check box. If there is a difference between the nodes displayed (some regular nodes are shown as dangles) run the Validate Edits command.