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Convert Diagram to Features

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Convert Diagram to Features Tool, Schematics Tools Toolbox

 

Convert Diagram to Features

Converts a schematic diagram to standard feature classes or shapefiles.

Schematic diagrams are all stored in hidden feature classes that are specific to Schematics and need the rest of the schematic configuration tables and information to be useful. This tool allows you to share diagrams with other people without having to provide the entire schematic dataset, which includes all the diagrams and the configuration. If you plan to convert multiple diagrams, you can choose whether they will all be placed into the same set of standard feature classes or shapefiles or if each diagram will get its own set of feature classes or shapefiles.

See the Code Sample section for a script tool sample that allows you to convert all diagrams contained in a schematic dataset or in a schematic folder.

1.    Input Schematic Diagram

The schematic diagram layer to be converted.

2.    Output Location

Workspace or feature dataset in which the schematic diagram will be converted. This container must already exist.

3.    Reuse Existing Structure (optional)

Indicates whether the input schematic diagram layer will be converted in the same standard feature classes/shapefiles as the other diagrams based on the same diagram template:

· Checked—Must be used to convert the specified diagram into the same standard feature classes/shapefiles as the other diagrams—based on the same diagram template—have already been or will be converted. In this case, depending on the chosen output location, the specified diagram is converted:

oInto a feature dataset whose name corresponds to the diagram template name and each feature class name corresponding to the schematic feature class names.

oInto a folder whose name corresponds to the diagram template name and each shapefile name corresponding to the schematic feature class names.

This is the default.

· Unchecked—Converts the input diagram into a new feature dataset/folder whose name is the concatenation of the input diagram's diagram template name and the diagram name—each feature class/shapefile name being the concatenation of the schematic feature class name and diagram name.

4.    Export All Related Feature Attributes (optional)

Indicates whether all the attributes stored in the real feature classes/object tables associated with the schematic feature classes will also be converted.

· Unchecked—Each schematic feature contained in the input diagram is converted with only the attributes contained in its schematic feature class. This is the default.

· Checked—Each schematic feature contained in the input diagram is converted with the attributes contained in its schematic feature class and all the attributes related to its associated real feature.

If no associated feature class/table is specified for a schematic feature class, no feature attributes can be converted.

When using the Reuse Existing Structure and Export All Related Feature Attributes options checked, the structure must already exist with the associated feature fields, so the related attributes are converted.

5.    Container Geometry (optional)

Indicates the geometry type of the features that will be created for the converted schematic containers contained in the input diagram.

· POLYGON—Each container in the input diagram is converted as a polygon feature. This is the default.

· POLYLINE—Each container in the input diagram is converted as a polyline feature.

· POINT—Each container in the input diagram is converted as a point feature.

When using the Reuse Existing Structure option and the structure already exists with POLYGON (POLYLINE or POINT) feature classes created for container schematic features, there is no way to change the feature class type to POLYLINE or POINT (POLYGON) for the next conversions.

6.    Configuration Keyword (optional)

The configuration keyword that determines the storage parameters of the table in a relational database management system (RDBMS). This is for enterprise, workgroup, or desktop geodatabase only.