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Dear George and all, Thanks for the explanation about converting Depthmap files to ArcGIS. But, I have encountered a problem while testing this method! When I joined the text file to the axial map in ArcMap I noticed that the number of lines in the text file are less than the number of lines in the axial map. I tried to join them based on the matching records and when I checked the attribute table I noticed that the syntactical values assigned to the lines in ArcMap are not consistent with the values in Depthmap which means the REF number and FID number do not match! In fact, the main problem must be the reduction of the number of lines (REF or FID) when exporting the shapefile as a dxf file! Does anyone have an idea of why this happens? Thanks. Best, Samira Samira Ramezani Ph.D. Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning Dept. of Planning, Design and Technology DATA - Sapienza Università di Roma via Flaminia 72 - 00196 Roma On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:16 PM, George Hallowell <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Renato and Abdelbaseer: > > The process to convert Depthmap files to ArcGIS by exporting is * > relatively* straightforward, but involves several steps. (it would be > much better if it were built into Depthmap) > > To get an axial map out of ArcGIS: > > 1. In ArcMap - first open the attribute table of your axial map (if > you created the file in ArcGIS) and chose “select all” > 2. Then right-click the axial map layer in your ArcMap table of > contents, and select Data>Export to CAD. I recommend saving CAD as DXF, > 2007 version. > 3. Remember to save and do not change the axial map layer you have > created in ArcGIS – you will need it later. > 4. Open the CAD file you just created as a new map in *Depthmap* and > process the file. > > > > To get your Depthmap processed file back out of Depthmap and into ArcGIS: > > 1. *Export* the Depthmap graph file/map (from within Depthmap) as a > .txt format text file. > 2. I recommend using Microsoft EXCEL as an intermediate step here – > From within Excel, *open* the .txt text file of the graph file you > just exported from Depthmap. Excel will ask if you want to treat as a > tab-delimited file – just say OK. When the file is open in Excel, save as > a Excel 97-2003 Workbook (it works better than later versions). > 3. Within Excel, I would also change the column headings for which > ever Depthmap data columns you will need in ArcGIS from the way Depthmap > labels it: For example, change “Integration Rn [HH]” to something like > “Integ_Rn” or you will have problems importing back into ArcMap because > ArcGIS has column title character limits and cannot handle brackets and > parentheses in column/field titles. Then save your Excel modified > Workbook. > 4. Finally, go back into ArcMap and right-click on your original Axial > Map layer in the table of contents: select Joins and relates>*Join*. > 5. Within the join command dialog box, “Choose the table to join this > layer..” and select your modified Excel file of the Depthmap graph file. > 6. In the “Chose the field in this layer that the join will be based > on” select *FID*. > 7. In the “Choose the field in the table to base the join on..” select > *ref * > 8. Then click OK, and your Depthmap data will be joined with your > georeferenced Axial map within ArcMap. > > > Hope this helps. > > George Hallowell > NCSU College of Design > > > > On 10/9/12 4:11 PM, "Renato Saboya" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello: > I also export to mif and then to shapefile. The ability to export > directly to shp would be a nice addition to Depthmap! > Best, > Renato. > > > > > On 05/10/2012 10:29, abdelbaseer A.Mohamed wrote: > > > > > Hello > I mostly associate Mapinfo with Depthmap for syntactic analysis. However, > I find it of great significance to integrate Depthmap with ArcGis, but I do > not know how to do so, as I think that files exported from Depthmap are not > compatible with Arcmap. even mif files should be coverted to shape files in > arc catalog. I would be grateful if somebody could share the knowledge > about this point. > yours > Abdelbaseer > > >