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Contents
Application level
3.3
3.3
View properties 7
TOC Style 7
Label and text tools 8
Convert shapefiles to projected units 9
Adding themes 9
New View menu options 9
Create Buffers Wizard 10
Exporting views into JPEG format 10
Esc stops drawing themes 10
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Neatline button 19
Exporting layouts into JPEG format
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Extensions
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Application level
Startup screen dialog box
Created with new users in mind, this dialog box gives quick and easy access to some of
the most common tasks performed when first starting ArcView GIS. You can choose to
create a new project (either blank or with a view) or open an existing one. Clear the
check box to stop the dialog box from displaying when ArcView GIS opens.
If you do not want the dialog box displayed again, delete the avstart.txt file in your
TEMP directory (PC) or $HOME directory (UNIX).
To update your project, click Yes. The new ArcView tools will be added to your interface.
To leave your project as is, click No. Your project will not be updated.
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TOC Style
A new menu choice, TOC Style, has been added to the Views View menu. TOC Style lets
you change the following display settings of the Table of Contents (TOC): line flatness
(degree to which the line symbols in the legend are flat), symbol length (the length of the
line symbol in the TOC), and TOC text symbol (how text in a legend appears).
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A sample extension for autolabeling more than one theme is also available in this release.
Spline text tool
A Spline text tool
with the ability to align text or position it along curved lines has
been added in this release. The tool is presented as an option on the Text tool menu.
After indicating where you want text drawn (by clicking in your view or layout), use the
Spline Text Properties dialog box to enter, align, and draw your text.
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Adding themes
Adding already-projected data to a projected view
Add Theme will now warn you if you try to add already-projected data to a projected
view (unless you are adding images). The data will be added to the view anyway, but it
may not display properly, as you cant view already-projected data in a projected view.
Esc cancels directory scan for Add Theme
Esc cancels directory scan for Add Theme. This allows you to immediately stop ArcView
GIS from reading all the directories. For example, if you have a directory with forty
folders in it, and you want to go to the third in the list, wait for ArcView GIS to display
the first three folders, then press Esc. Now double-click on the third folder in the list.
Map and distance units automatically set
When adding a theme, if ArcView GIS detects that your data is in decimal degrees, it will
automatically set the map and distance units for you.
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DXF Export
ArcView GIS 3.2 included a data conversion utility providing shape-to-DXF output.
For more information regarding SDTS Data Import or DXF Export, please see Whats
New in the ArcView GIS online help system.
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z=3
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To learn more about extended shapes and special considerations for Avenue
programmers, refer to the ArcView GIS online help Whats new topic, Support for
measured and 3D shapes.
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The DynName class now accepts a measured PolyLine shapefile FTab on the
Make request.
The Add Event Theme dialog box now recognizes measured PolyLine shapefiles;
that is, event themes can be defined on measured shapes.
The Export request on the FTab class can now convert an ArcInfo coverage
route system into a measured (PolyLineM) shapefile.
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Tables
Whats new for SQL Connect
With PC versions of ArcView GIS, error messages returned from an ODBC driver are now
appended to a file called ODBC.errlog, located in the ArcView GIS home directory. Error
messages associated with incorrect login information, select statement syntax errors, or
attempting to perform an invalid database operation are normally returned from a driver.
If the ODBC.errlog file does not exist, you will get a message stating that the file has
been created the first time a driver returns an error message. Below is an example of an
error message that may appear in this file.
Call to SQLPrepare received error ODBC API function called
Received: SQL_ERROR Return code from the ODBC function
Return code: -1
State: S0022
ODBC error codeIf you have ODBC API documentation, you can retrieve more
information about the problem by looking up this SQL State.
Also see Database Access extension in the Extensions section of this booklet.
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To create neatlines and borders on your layout, use the Neatline button
the button bar. Once selected, the Neatline Settings dialog box appears.
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Extensions
ArcView GIS extensions are add-on programs that provide specialized GIS functionality.
When you load an extension, the ArcView GIS user interface changes to reflect the
functionality available in the extension. Depending on the extension, new menus,
buttons, tools, and dialog box options will be available.
Extensions are loaded and unloaded using the Extensions dialog box. To access the
Extensions dialog box, choose Extensions from the File menu.
The following extensions are included with ArcView GIS:
3.3
3.3
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Microsoft SQL Server without an ArcSDE application server being present. Direct
Connect with Database Access 2.1c requires an ArcSDE server connection license.
Database Access 2.1c continues to support both SDE 3.0.x and ArcSDE 8.
Digitizer extension
Digitizer extension has been enhanced to support stream mode digitizing. Using this
method, you click only the first vertex and simply trace over the feature on a paper map.
When you complete tracing the feature, you click another button to end the line.
ArcView GIS does the rest by automatically adding vertices based on a stream tolerance
distance that you specify in the current map units. Stream mode digitizing makes it
quick and easy to capture complex features, such as streams, rivers, and contours, off the
paper map. When you load the Digitizer extension, ArcView GIS adds two new choices to
the View menu: Stream Tolerance and Enable/Disable Stream Mode.
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Stream Tolerance
When you trace features over the paper map in stream mode, ArcView GIS automatically
adds vertices at a specified interval. You can set this interval in current map units and
change the distance at any time, even while tracing an existing line. You can also specify
the stream tolerance distance interactively using the Stream Tolerance tool
on the
toolbar. (The Stream Tolerance tool allows you to perform the same functions
interactively as the Stream Tolerance menu choice.)
Enable/Disable Stream mode
This menu item allows you to switch between digitizing in point mode and the new
enhanced method of digitizing in stream mode. The default option is point mode
digitizing. You may also use the F3 function key to switch between the two modes.
For detailed information on how to digitize features in stream mode, refer to Digitizers,
Stream mode digitizing in the ArcView GIS online help index.
The Digitizer extension is not available on UNIX.
GeoProcessing extension
The wizard-based interface in this extension lets you perform some new spatial analysis
functions in ArcView GIS. To access the GeoProcessing extension, load the extension
using the Extensions dialog box. Make sure a view is open and active. Then, from the
View menu, choose GeoProcessing.
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To access the Graticules and Measured Grids extension, load the extension using the
Extensions dialog box. You must have at least one view frame in your layout before the
Graticules and Measured Grids extension is enabled. Click the Graticule and Measured
Grids button
on the ArcView GIS toolbar to display the first wizard panel.
3.3
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To use the Legend tool, select the Legend Tool extension from the Extensions dialog
box. The Legend tool
appears on the toolbar once you have a layout that contains
one or more views. Click the Legend tool, then the layout.
3.3
3.3
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With the ArcView GIS Report Wizard, you can choose one of the following report types:
Quick Report
Standard Report
Form Letters
Mailing Labels
Top Number (N) Report
Cross Tab Report
Drill Down Report
A report based on another template
Note: If you do not have Crystal Reports installed on your system, you can still create a
simple report with ArcView GIS using Quick Reports. The Quick Reports option does not
use Crystal Reports and is available after any installation of ArcView GIS. The Quick
Reports interface provides basic tools for selection and organization of fields; setting
fonts, column width, and row heights to be used in the report; and previewing and
printing the report.
The Report Writer extension is not available on UNIX.
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Optional extensions
The optional extensions bring advanced, specialized GIS analysis to the desktop. They
are available as separate software.
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Requests
Maps
Web user
somewhere
in the world
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The data bundle included with ArcView GIS 3.3 has been updated to ESRI Data &
Maps 2000. ESRI Data & Maps 2000 contains many types of map data at many scales of
geography. The data is provided in shapefile and MrSID image formats and can be read
directly from the CDROMs. Each shapefile includes an ArcView GIS 3.x legend file
(.avl), which ArcView 3.x automatically opens when the shapefile is added to a view,
providing symbols and classifications for the theme. Each shapefile includes a
projection file (.prj). The projection file stores the coordinate system information for the
shapefile. ArcView Projection Utility and ArcGIS use the projection file.
The data is organized on seven CDs. CDROM 1 contains data for the World and Europe.
ArcEurope Base Map and Demographic are included and available on
CDROM 1. CDROM 2 contains data for Canada, Mexico, and the United States, as
well as a World Topography and Bathymetry image. CDROM 2 also contains an
HTML-based help system provided for ArcView 3.3 users. Data for the United States is
continued on CDROM 3. Very detailed data for the regions of the United States is split
between the west on CDROM 4, the east on CDROM 5, and the south on CDROM 6.
CDROM 6 also contains image data for the World and North America. ArcGIS
StreetMap USA data resides on CDROM 7 and can be used with ArcView StreetMap 1.1.
The data is useful for general-purpose basemaps and for more specific uses. The data can
make a new user productive and the software useful as soon as it is installed. For each
geography included, the significant basemap layers are boundaries, cities, rivers, and
roads. This generalized basemap information is available for the World, Canada, Mexico,
the United States, and Europe. In addition, where possible, demographic data is provided
for subnational boundaries, such as states, counties, or their equivalents.
The following are some new and updated datasets which are included in the ESRI Data &
Maps 2000 data bundle.
Continents
UTM Zones
Time Zones
Europe Base Map
European Demographic
North America Shaded Relief (Grid)
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Samples
The samples directory contains a rich resource of sample programs you can use directly
in your work or study to learn more about customizing ArcView GIS. There are three
kinds of samples in the samples library: Avenue scripts, extensions, and other sample
programs. For a listing and a description of samples in this directory, refer to Sample
scripts and extensions under the Contents tab in ArcView online help.
The extensions are located in the $AVHOME\samples\ext directory in your ArcView GIS
installation.
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This project requires a standard installation of the Samples. Its file is called avir3.apr in
the $AVHOME\samples\ext\esridqr3\avir3 folder. Refer to the readme.pdf file in this
folder for more information on how to use the project.
DIGEST (ASRP/USRP)
This sample extension provides direct read support for raster data compliant with
DIGEST Annex A, primarily used by international defense and military agencies. There
are two profiles: Arc Standard Raster Product (ASRP), produced by the UK Mil Survey,
and UTM/Universe Polar Stereographic (UPS) (USRP), produced by French Defense
Mapping Agency (DGA). The reader will bring in a DIGEST image georeferenced. It
supports ASRP 1.1 and 1.2, and USRP 1.2 and 1.3.
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RPF Indexer
Raster Product Format (RPF) is one of the NITFs formats. CIB and CADRG are RPF
products.
This sample extension reads the TOC file from each dataset and generates a shapefile
that can be used as an index theme for RPF image formats. As there is no naming scheme
for CIB or CADRG, it is difficult to determine the geographic location of an image by its
name. It is generally very time consuming to bring up one image, then search to find the
adjoining image. The index theme helps the user choose the image of interest. Users can
interactively select a block (or interactively draw a box) in the index theme to display
the appropriate image(s) for that block. Click on the block (or drag a box) again and the
image(s) will undraw.
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