GIS 4102: GIS Programming Module 5

Module 5: Geoprocessing in ArcGIS

This week’s assignment covered creating a toolbox, creating a tool using Model Builder, setting Model Parameters, exporting a script from Model Builder, updating that script to work outside of ArcMap and creating a script tool from it.

The tool does the following:

1.  Clips the Soils layer to the Basin features.

2.  Selects Not Prime Farmland from the Clip.

3.  Erases this selection from the original Basin layer.

4.  Creates a new Basin layer without the Not Prime Farmland clipped/selection.

Below is a screen shot of the output shapefile (the new Basin layer without the Not Prime Farmland).