Update angle values

Available with Production Mapping license.

Available with Defense Mapping license.

The Populate Angle tool allows you to calculate the angle values for a selection of features.

  1. Add layers to your map, if they don't already exist, by dragging feature data from the Catalog pane onto the map.

    A feature template for the new layer is automatically generated with default settings.

    Tip:

    If the feature data does not exist, right-click the target geodatabase in the Catalog pane and create a new feature class.

  2. On the Edit tab, in the Features group, click Modify Modify Features.

    The Modify Features pane appears.

  3. Select features in the map.
  4. In the Modify Features pane, expand the Topographic category and click Populate Angle Populate Angle.

    The Populate Angle tool opens in the pane.

  5. In the Modify Features pane, on the Populate Angle page, click Populate.
  6. Click once in the active map to create a starting point for the angle, then drag the mouse pointer and click a second point to define the direction of the angle.

    Example of the method used to populate angle values

    The tool automatically pans and zooms to the next feature.

  7. Repeat step 6 to update angles for each of the remaining features.

    When you have updated angles for all of the selected features, a message box appears and tells you how many angles have been updated.

  8. Click OK.