| ET GeoWizards
9.5 - released 7 May 2006
New
The user now can set a temp folder that will be used for storing the intermediate datasets created during the ET GeoWizards functions
and for the LOG file.
- New GUI functions
- Features to 3D - Creates a 3D dataset from the features of existing 2D dataset (point, polyline or polygon) by deriving the values from a surface (Raster or TIN) layer. No 3D Analyst needed!
- Remove exact duplicates
- New scripting functions
- Point Grid Extents
- Vector Grid Origin
- Vector Grid Extents
- Remove exact duplicates
- Analyze TIN
- Interpolate Contours
- New toolbox tools
- Point Grid Origin
- Point Grid Extents
- Vector Grid Origin
- Vector Grid Extents
- Remove exact duplicates
- Analyze TIN
- Interpolate Contours
Improved
- The Point Intersection function can be used directly on datasets with Z/M values.
- Point To PolylineZ(M) and Point To PolygonZ(M)functions can create geometries
that have Z and M values
- The functions that create polylines and polygons from points create attribute link to the source points. Functions affected:
- Point To Polyline
- Point To PolylineZ(M)
- Point To Polygon
- Point To PolygonZ(M)
- Improved algorithm for deriving label points of polygons.
- The wizards can now be used even if the GCS of the spatial reference the feature layers is different from the GCS of the spatial reference of data frame.
The user will be notified, but will be able to use the functions.
- Several functions can be used on Multipoint datasets. Affected functions:
- Delete Multiple fields
- Copy Fields from Layer
- Redefine Fields
- Order Fields
- Move Shapes
- Rotate Shapes
- Scale Shapes
- Sort Shapes
- Improved Generate Contours from TIN function
Bugs fixed
- A bug causing failure of the Polygon Advanced Merge function if high "Priority" is used.
- A bug in the Interpolate Z for Points function causing not
transferring the attributes during the process.
- A bug in the interface not allowing the wizards to be used if only raster datasets are loaded in the map.
- A bug causing failure of several functions if the source has Z/M values and the output is a GDB feature class. Functions affected
- A bug causing failure of several of the functions if the output is a PGDB feature class.
Functions affected:
- Split Polyline
- Split Polyline with Layer
- Point Grid
- Vector Grid
- Build TIN
- Build Thiessen
- Point To PontZ(M)
- Point To PolylineZ(M)
- Point To PolygonZ(M)
- A bug causing incorrect attribute transfer with Polygon To Point function.
- A bug causing failure if the source datasets are SDE feature classes. Functions affected
- Batch Clip
- Batch Erase
- Batch DropZM
ET GeoWizards
9.4.1 - released 16 October 2005
Bugs Fixed
- A bug in the User Interface causing inability to run the functions
from the GUI. The bug affected only French and German versions of
Windows.
- A bug causing some functions to fail if used on PGDB feature
classes. Functions affected:
- Polyline Global Snap
- Polygon Global Snap
- A bug causing failure of the Eliminate function if used on a PGDB
feature class
ET GeoWizards
9.4 - released 01 October 2005
Introduces support for Personal Geodatabase.
All functions can store the outputs as personal geodatabase
feature classes
New Functions:
- GUI
- ToolBox
- Advanced Merge
- Point Intersection
- Batch Clip
- Batch Erase
- Renode
- Snap Points
- Snap Polylines
- Merge Multiple
- Sort Shapes
- Order Fields
- Station Points
- Batch DropZM
- Scripting
- Advanced Merge
- Point Intersection
- Batch Clip
- Rename Fields
- Batch Erase
- Renode
- Clean Polygon2
- Snap Points
- Clean Polyline2
- Snap Polylines
- Merge Multi
- Sort Shapes
- Order Fields
- Station Points
Improved
- Clean Polygon (ToolBox implementation) - allows identification of
the overlaps in the original dataset
- Clean Polyline (ToolBox implementation) - allows identification of
the duplicates in the original dataset
Bugs Fixed
ET GeoWizards
9.3.1 - released 12 June 2005
New Functions
- Export To Shapefile (GUI, Scripting and ToolBox implementations)
- overcomes the inability of the standard ArcGIS export functionality to export to shapefiles feature classes that have fields type raster in their attribute tables
- if the source feature class has subtypes, the function adds to the shapefile a field that will have the subtype values (not only the subtype codes)
Improved
- Split Polyline with Layer function improved to handle duplicate polylines
Bugs Fixed
- Clean Pseudo Nodes (ToolBox implementation only) -a bug causing incorrect attribute updates
- Bug causing a failure when the input layer has a GDB source - fixed. Affected
functions
- Clean Pseudo Nodes
- Explode Multi-part Features
- A problem causing failure of some of the functions (Scripting and ToolBox implementation only) - fixed. Functions affected:
- Split By Location
- Split By Attributes
- Point Angle And Position
- Measure Points
- Point Grid
- Point Distance
- A problem with most of the functions when applied on a layer which attribute table contains a field with "Raster" type (ArcGIS 9.0 and above only) - fixed.
- Some functions could not handle Null values in the input attribute table - fixed. Affected functions
- Point Distance
- Redefine Fields
- Order Fields
ET GeoWizards
9.3 - released 15 April 2005
New Functions
- Linear Referencing
system
- Create routes from existing polylines
- Calibrate Routes with points
- Locate point features along routes
- Locate polygon features along routes
- Dissolve Route Events
- Concatenate Route Events
- Intersect Route Events
- Union Route Events
- Station Points
- Get PolylineZ
characteristics
- Flip Polylines
- Transfer attributes
- Spider Diagram
New ToolBox functions
- Get Point Coordinates
- Get Polygon Coordinates
- Get Polyline Coordinates
- Spider Diagram
- Transfer attributes
- Split polylines
- Polygons Clean Gaps
- Polygons Eliminate
New scripting functions
- Create routes -length
- Create routes - single field
- Create routes - two fields
- Calibrate routes
- Split polylines
- Transfer attributes
- Spider Diagram
- Polygons Clean Gaps
- Polygons Eliminate
Improved
- Locale Settings used for the decimal symbol of real numbers. Functions affected:
- All the wizards that require input of a real number (tolerances etc.)
- Generate (import from text)
- Ungenerate (export to text)
- Most of the data cleaning functions can be applied directly on datasets that have Z and/or M values. Note that the resulting shapefiles will not have Z/M values. Functions affected:
- Build Polygons
- Clean Polylines
- Clean Dangles
- Clean Polygons
- Clean Gaps
- Eliminate Function - entirely redesigned. Improved performance
- Smooth Function - improved to handle better closed polylines
Bugs Fixed
- Bug in the ToolBox implementation of the
Build Thiessen function -fixed
- Clean Pseudo Nodes function - could not handle correctly closed polylines created as a result of the function - fixed
ET GeoWizards 9.2 -
released
06 January 2005
Introduced
Support for ArcToolbox (ArcGIS 9.0 and
above only). Forty tools are made available for use within the Model
Builder, on Command Line or via Python, Java or VB scripts.
New Functions
- Measure Points
- Split By Attributes
- Split By Location
- Cogo Inverse
New scripting functions
- Measure Points
- Point Angle and Position
- Split By Attributes
- Split By Location
- Point Grid
- Point Distance
- Cogo Inverse
- Select By Attributes and Export
- Point To PolylineZM
- Point To PolygonZM
- PolylineZM To Point
- PolygonZM To Point
- Point To PointZM
- PointZM To Point
- Rename field
- Add Attribute Index Shapefiles
- Add Spatial Index Shapefiles
Improved
- Several functions improved to handle the failure of the Simplify ArcObjects method:
- Interpolate Contours
- Clean Pseudo Nodes
- Eliminate
- Polygon From Points
- Several functions improved to handle features with Z and M values
- Explode Multi-Part features
- Dissolve Polygons
- Clean Pseudo Nodes (Dissolve Polylines)
- Split Polyline
- Merge Layers function adds the full path of the source datasets to the attribute layer of the merged dataset
Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing failure if there is a null geometry in the polyline dataset. The new version of the functions reports the problems in the source
dataset with the ID of the feature with Null geometry - fixed. Functions affected:
- Export Nodes
- Renode Polylines
- Bug in the Point Distance function when
the two layers have different coordinate system - fixed
- Bugs in the scripting implementation of some functions - fixed. Functions affected:
ET GeoWizards 9.1.1
- released 31 October 2004
- Bugs fixed
- A bug causing several functions to fail when used on large datasets. Affected functions
- Polygon - Advanced Merge
- Erase
- Batch Erase
- Clean Gaps
- Clean Points
- A bug causing a failure when used on dataset containing extremely small polygons. Affected functions
- Build Polygons
- Clean Polygons
- Advanced Merge
- A bug causing ArcMap to crash after the function completes. Affected functions
- Clean Pseudo Nodes (only the version for ArcGIS 9)
- A bug causing ET GeoWizards to report an error although a function is completed successfully. Affected functions
- Batch Clip
- Batch Erase
- Erase
- A bug in the Point Distance function when the two layers have different spatial reference
- A bug causing a failure of many of the functions (only the version for ArcGIS 9) if the source dataset contains NULL
values
ET GeoWizards 9.1 - released 16
August 2004
- New functions
- Merge Layers Wizard - very similar to the standard function of the
GeoProcessing wizard, but preserves the Z/M dimensions of the input
layers
- ET GeoWizards Scripting - new sample script added
- Split Polygon Layer with a Polyline layer - gives a
solution to many queries send to us or posted to the ArcGIS
forum
- Improved
- Create Shapefile function allows adding fields to the shapefile
created
- Improved field names verification. Functions affected
- Significantly improved performance of some functions (ArcGIS 9.x
version)
- Clean Polylines
- Clean Polygons
- Advanced Merge
- Clean Pseudo Nodes
- Dissolve Polygons
- Split Polyline with Layer
- Bugs fixed
- A bug causing failure of some functions when used on very
specific datasets - Fixed. Functions affected
- Build Polygons
- Advanced Merge
- Clean Polygons
ET GeoWizards 9.0 - released
14 June 2004
- New functions
- ET GeoWizards Scripting - allows many of the functions (available previously only via the Graphic User
Interface of the software) to be used within user scripts. Read the User
Guide for details. Functions available:
- BuildPolygons
- BuildThiessen
- BuildTIN
- CleanDangles
- CleanPolygon
- CleanPolyline
- ClipIt
- DensifyPolylines
- DissolvePolygons
- DissolvePolylines
- EraseIt
- ExportNodes
- GeneralizePolylines
- PointToPolygon
- PointToPolyline
- PolygonToPoint
- PolygonToPolyline
- PolylineToPoint
- SmoothPolylines
- Spatial_Join
- Utility Functions
- Improved
- Several functions have improved performance
- A couple of minor improvements in the interface
- Bugs fixed
- Problems when using some of the functions on GDB layers having
long (more than 10 characters) field names - FIXED. Functions
affected:
- Global Snap Points
- Global Snap Polylines
- Global Snap Polygons
- Point Angle and Position
- A bug causing failure of the functions that create PolygonZ
features -FIXED.
Affected functions:
- Generate
- Point To PolygonZ
- A bug in Generate function when the source text file describes
only two point polylines - FIXED
ET GeoWizards 8.7 - released 07 March 2004
- New functions
- Renode Function - exports the nodes of a polyline dataset as a point shapefile. Updates
the polyline attribute table with the IDs of the nodes pertaining to each polyline. Allows
an easy link between the polylines and their nodes.
- The Generate function can import lines from a text file with format:
id,xFrom,yFrom,xTo,yTo
- Copy Fields from a layer function - allows easy transferring of
fields between different datasets
- Improved
- the interface for the Batch Clip and Batch Erase
functions - more flexible for assigning output file names
- All the Advanced Merge functions are using Fuzzy tolerance to avoid some inaccuracies
during the overlay operations
- The Build Polygons function allows assigning Fuzzy tolerance when
the clean option is selected.
- The Create Contours function can use non integer contour intervals
- The Delete Multiple Fields function can be used directly on GeoDatabase layers (if there
are appropriate permissions)
- Better error handling for all options of the Generate function
- The conversion functions that create point datasets add X &
Y coordinates for each point in the point attribute table.
- Split Polyline Layer function - the split layer can be of
shapeZ(M) type
- Global Snap Functions - the snap layer can be of
shapeZ(M) type
- Order Fields function can handle DATE type fields
- Bugs fixed
- Problems in several functions caused by an internal bug in the ArgGIS
geometry engine (IArea::LabelPoint - not handled error) .The problem
is fixed by implementing a new generic function that calculates the
label points of the polygons which replaces the use of the
standard LabelPoint method of ArcObjects.
- Several functions were reporting errors when the source data
(Feature Class in Geodatabase) had long field names - FIXED
- A bug in the Point To Polygon function causing creation of
polygon rings with incorrect orientation - FIXED
- A bug in Clean Gaps function that crashes ArcMap if there are no gaps in the source
polygon dataset - FIXED
- A couple of inaccuracies in the interface - fixed
- A bug in Build Thiessen Polygons function that caused incorrect results when a large
buffer distance is used - FIXED
ET GeoWizards 8.6 - released 27 April 2003
- New Functions
- Reverse Geocoding - Uses a reference polyline (street centerlines) layer to assign
addresses to the points from a point layer. Allows transfer of any additional attributes.
- Point Angle and Position - Identifies the closest polyline from the reference layer to
each point and calculates: the angle of the closest polyline segment, the position &
stationing of the point along the polyline and the distance to the polyline
- Closest Feature Distance - Calculates the distance for each feature of a layer to
the closest feature from the same layer (Point, Polyline or Polygon)
- Order Fields - Exports a feature layer to a new shapefile. The user selects the fields
to be exported and the order in which they will appear in the attribute table.
- Redefine Fields - Changes field names and definitions.
- Improved
- Some functions that are designed to work with plain shapes allowed input of ShapeZ(M)
layers - corrected
- Improved performance of the Polyline ==> Clean Dangling Nodes function
- Bugs fixed
- A bug in the log system - fixed
- A bug in the interface of the Point Distance Function - fixed
- The field indicating the status of the polygons after Clean Gaps function - reinstated
- A bug in the Eliminate Polygons function - fixed
- A bug affecting many of the functions when the source layer is a stand-alone feature
class in a Geodatabase - fixed
ET GeoWizards 8.5 - released 10 February 2003
- New
- Snap Point Layer - snaps the points to the features from another layer (Point, polyline
Polygon)
- Snap Polyline Layer - snaps the polylines to the features from another layer (Point,
polyline Polygon). Options available:
- Snap Polygon Layer - snaps the polygons vertices to the features from another
layer(Point, polyline Polygon)
- Triangulate Polygons. Converts a Polygon Dataset to equivalent data set consisting from
triangles only.
- Calculate Surface Area. Calculates the true surface area of 3D polygons
- Interpolate Point Elevation. Converts a point dataset to 3D Points - the elevation
interpolated from a TIN (3D Polygon) dataset
- The Analyze TIN Wizard calculates the surface (3D) area of the triangles.
- Improved
- Some of the procedures in the previous versions were triggering the Norton Anti Virus
warning. Apparently NAV considers some of the VBScript methods dangerous. Although these
functions were absolutely harmless, they were redesigned and NAV should not complain
anymore.
- Improved speed of the Point Distance function
- Improved performance of the Split Polyline With Layer function.
- All the functions have improved handling of unprojected datasets in a projected
Dataframe
- Build Polygon - improved performance and memory management
- Clean Gaps - cleans the overlaps as well
- All the Advanced Merge functions ensure topological correctness of the resulting dataset
- Generate function - several improvements.Improved Thiessen Polygons and TIN functions
- Vector Grid function - improved to work better with projected data in unprojected data
frame
- Point Grid function - improved to work better with projected data in unprojected data
frame
- Ungenerate function - an option added to export to a TAB delimited text file
- Improved handling of incorrect user inputs
- Bugs fixed
- Clean Gaps - a bug that creates minor topological inconsistencies - fixed
- Bug in Split Polyline function - in some cases creates NULL polylines - fixed
ET GeoWizards 8.4 - released 03 November 2002
- All the functions work with Group Layers
- Bugs fixed in
- Split Polyline Wizard
- Generalize Wizard
- Improved
- Analyze TIN function. The Slope and Aspect are calculated in the same way 3D Analyst
calculates them
- Significantly improved Point Grid function
- New
ET GeoWizards 8.3a - released 24 September 2002
- Bugs fixed in
- Advanced Merge Wizard
- Eliminate Wizard
- Generate Wizard
- Improved
- Generate Wizard
- Allows a preview of the text file to be imported
- Handles Space delimited files
- Recognizes the delimiter (Space or Comma) used
- Ungenerate Wizard
- Exports to Space or Comma delimited text files
ET GeoWizards 8.3 - released 02 September 2002
- New
- Convert Closed Polylines To Polygons Wizard
- Split Polyline Wizards
- in all vertices
- at equal intervals
- at user defined length intervals
- Generate Wizard
- Ungenerate Wizard
- A Log system introduced
- All the functions can overwrite existing shapefiles
- User defined link field in the Export Nodes Wizard
- Improved
- All the convert functions transfer all the attributes to the result data set
- Significantly improved performance of:
- Clean Polygon function
- Clean Polyline function
- Build Polygon function
- The Clip and Erase functions have an option for processing dense polyline data sets.
- Improved handling of Address Range attributes in the Split Polyline Wizard
- All the functions have improved error handling and memory cleaning
- Bugs fixed
- A bug in the Build Polygon function
- A bug in the Dissolve Polygons function
- A bug in transferring attributes - inability to handle long field names
- A bug in Split Polylines With a Layer - when the split layer is polygon
ET GeoWizards 8.2 - released 04 June 2002
- New
- Dissolve Polygons Wizard
- Clean Pseudo Nodes Wizard
- Explode Wizard
- Point Intersection Wizard
- Split Polyline with a Layer Wizard
- Improved
- Bugs Fixed
- Export Nodes Wizard - could not handle empty features
ET GeoWizards 8.1.1 - released 04 March 2002
- Bugs in the user interface - fixed
- Shape Z(M) To Shape function
- Point Z(M) To Point function
- Clean Polyline function
- Point Distance function
- Problems when working with GeoDatabase layers - fixed
- Major performance improvement when working with GeoDatabase layers
- The Polyline To Point function allows exporting angle attribute for the Middle Point
option
- Point Distance function exports all the attributes to the distance shapefile
- All the functions preserve the link to the original data sets
- Clean Dangling Nodes Function - close rings procedure added
- Convert functions handle directly point event themes
- Bug in the registration procedure for Advanced Merge function - fixed
ET GeoWizards 8.1 - released 19 January 2002
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