Services - ArcView Tips and Instructions

A. Calculations

1. Calculating acreage for polygons in ArcView

B. Conversions

1. Converting a DBF file with latitude and longitude Fields into a Shape file
2. Converting DLG's in STDS format to Shapefile for ArcView
3. Converting SDTS format DEM's into Grid files for ArcView
4. How to convert a Grid in ArcView from feet to meters

C. Importing

1. Importing files from ArcInfo to ArcView
2. Importing DEM files from the Geodata Software System's One Degree DEM's of the US and it's Possessions CD's into ArcView

D. Extensions

1. Changing projections using Project! Extension in ArcView. Example usingMPROP data
2. ArcView Extension: Two Themes. Using Two Themes Extension to aggregate data (twotheme.doc)
3. Downloading multiple DRG's from the internet and putting them in a mosaicin ArcView
4. Instructions for using the Grid Studio Extension

E. Techniques

1. CAD files in ArcView (.DXF, .DG) - Adding as Themes, Working with layers
2. Making recently used projects appear on drop down file menu (Last4 Extension)
3. Converting polygons into points
4. Bringing a second view frame into and existing Layout
5. Re-projecting multiple themes in one operation
6. Rotating a View in an ArcView Layout
7. Installing the Wisconsin Transverse Mercator (WTM) projection

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