Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
the (approximate) correspondence between the location of the cursor on the status bar, the
coordinates shown in the location text box of the Identify window, the POINT_X and POINT_Y
values in the Identify window, and the values in the attribute table. Dismiss all open windows.
Dismiss ArcMap.
Exercise 4-3 (Minor Project)
Adding Tools and Toolboxes to Your Toolset
Although ArcToolbox provides many tool options, you may be facing a task for which a tool isn't provided.
It is certainly possible that someone else needed to solve the same problem and, if you're lucky, the other
person will have shared their solution on ArcGIS's resource website. So, instead of reinventing the wheel,
you should search Esri's sites—specifically, the Geoprocessing Model and Script Tool Gallery—to see
what other users have developed. Should a tool you want exist it turns out that it is easy to add to your
copy of ArcGIS.
Also, you might accidentally delete a toolbox, or delete a toolbox that you thought you'd never use
and then, once you start a new project, you discover that you need that toolbox. For all these reasons,
being able to add toolboxes is a skill you should have—or at least put in your Fast Facts File for
reference.
Here, you will be adding a toolbox that was supplied by Esri in past versions but then removed.
(The elegant term for removing something from the software is “depreciated.”) It is called the Samples
toolbox. Samples tool box has been provided on the DVD. Currently, it is also on the Internet at the
following URL:
1.
Verify that you know where the toolbox is residing, whether you download the file from the link
or plan to use the one provided on the DVD in the Samples_Toolbox folder
\SampleTools.tbx.
2.
Start ArcCatalog. Open the set of Toolboxs by clicking the ArcToolbox button on the standard
toolbar.
3.
Right-click in a blank space within the toolbox window and select Add Toolbox. Navigate to the
location on the DVD
Samples_Toolbox\SampleTools.tbx
select it, and click Open. You should now see the toolbox, named Samples in your toolbox
window. In the next Exercise, you will use tools from this toolbox.
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