New Productivity and Performance Improvements at ArcGIS 9.2
- Keyboard shortcuts for tools (hit “z” for the zoom function)
- Better mouse roller wheel support
- Better context menus
- Customize Map Scale list (1” to 200’, etc)
- Limit Zoom to full extent (stops you from zooming out to the whole world rather than your focus area)
- Right click and identify any feature
- Sort the identify results (or hide fields you don’t want to see)
- Copy and paste right out of identify window
- Hide fields in tables very easily (just double click on them)
- Print attribute tables!
- Right click and calculate areas or length (no more vb code).
- Table navigation mimics Microsoft Excel (word wrapping also)
- Help now includes video tutorials
- Supports CAD documents symbology
- No longer need to set domains in geodatabases or grid size
- You can set by default “relative path” in your map documents rather than have to manually change it every time
- All ArcToolbox tools support batch operations (right click and hit batch)
- File Geodatabase improves performance over Personal Geodatabase (much, much faster)
- Flicker capability (rapidly turn layers on and off to toggle back and forth between datasets)
- Export to PDF now includes named layers (layers tab in Acrobat can now turn on and off the layers right inside the PDF)
- Native support of Excel (add Excel spreadsheets can be added right to the layers list of ArcMap)
- Support for archiving (see changes to geodatabase over time and even use the new animation tools and save movies out to show change over time)
- New graph support (Much easier to make “Excel Quality” graphs from inside ArcMap)
- OH I heard mention of using an Python script and R within your ArcGIS Model
I’ll be honest, I haven’t heard the kind of cheering and clapping that I’ve heard today in a very long time
Keyboard shortcuts for tools! Now if they are customizable (space bar for pan, ctrl-+ for zoom in) that will be a double yeah.
I saw a presentation at the Society for Conservation Biology conference last month where the folks at Duke used Python and r to create some real slick modeling tools http://www.env.duke.edu/geospatial , and the folks at South Coast Wildlands gave a seminar on integrating Python and r into your ArcGIS models http://www.scwildlands.org/gis.aspx
I bet the Map2PDF folks are not happy to hear about the PDF tabs addition.