Geometric Network properties

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Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for geometric networks. The Dataset property group is also supported.

For a geometric network, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "GeometricNetwork".

Properties

PropertyExplanationData Type
featureClassNames
(Read Only)

A list of the feature classes participating in the geometric network.

String
networkType
(Read Only)

The type of associate logical network.

  • StreetNetwork
  • UtilityNetwork
String
orphanJunctionFeatureClassName
(Read Only)

The name of the feature class that contains the Orphan Junction features.

String

Code sample

Geometric network properties example

The following stand-alone script displays properties for a geometric network:

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from the geometric network.
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/wellingham.gdb/water/water_Net")

# Print some geometric network properties
#
print("NetworkType:                    " + desc.networkType)
print("OrphanJunctionFeatureClassName: " + \
    desc.orphanJunctionFeatureClassName)
print("Feature Class Names:")
for fcname in desc.featureClassNames:
    print("  " + fcname)