Disable COGO (Data Management)

Summary

Disables COGO on a line feature class and removes COGO fields and COGO-enabled labeling and symbology. COGO fields can be deleted.

Usage

Caution:

This tool modifies the input data. See Tools that modify or update the input data for more information and strategies to avoid undesired data changes.

• Disables the following COGO fields on the selected line feature class: ArcLength, Direction, Distance, Radius, and Radius2. These fields can be deleted.

• Removes COGO-related labeling and symbology from the line feature class.

• If a line feature class is not COGO enabled, the Traverse tool will not store any entered dimensions.

  Learn more about the Traverse tool

• Use the Enable COGO tool to enable COGO on a line feature class.

Parameters

Dialog

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Input Line Features	The line feature class that will have COGO disabled.	Feature Layer

Derived Output

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Updated Input Line features	The COGO disabled dataset.	Table View

Python

arcpy.management.DisableCOGO(in_line_features)

Name	Explanation	Data Type
in_line_features	The line feature class that will have COGO disabled.	Feature Layer

Derived Output

Name	Explanation	Data Type
updated_line_features	The COGO disabled dataset.	Table View

Code sample

DisableCOGO example 1 (Python window)

The following Python window script demonstrates how to use the DisableCOGO tool in immediate mode.

import arcpy
arcpy.env.workspace = r"E:\ArcGISXI\Mont\Montgomery.gdb"
arcpy.DisableCOGO_management("Landbase\Road_cl")

DisableCOGO example 2 (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone script demonstrates how to check for and disable COGO on a line feature class.

import arcpy

#Variable to contain the path of the feature class that will have COGO disabled
lineFeatureClass = r"d:\test.gdb\myLineFC"

#Check to see if the feature class is already COGO enabled by using .isCOGOEnabled on a Describe
if arcpy.Describe(lineFeatureClass).isCOGOEnabled == True:
    #If it returns True, run DisableCOGO_management and pass the feature class
    arcpy.DisableCOGO_management(lineFeatureClass)
else:
    print("{} is not COGO Enabled".format(lineFeatureClass))

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

• Basic: No
• Standard: Yes
• Advanced: Yes