Exporting ESRI files

Exporting ESRI files

It is first necessary to establish a system that is capable of being run, such as the demo example shown below:


  Selecting the ESRI Shapefiles option from the File -> Export menu presents the following message:


If you continue, you will then need to nominate a filename for shapefiles in the following dialog box:


You can see from the existing files in this example how six ESRI SHP files are established. Another 12 SHX and DBF files will also be produced. The initial part of each filename will be the name that you nominated.

After a name is entered, the process is complete if there are no results. If results are available, the following dialog box appears:


A suitable name should be added describing the results; here they are for a 5 year average recurrence interval storm. The limited size is due to restrictions on the size of column headings in the database files used in ArcView. After this is entered, the process is finished.

If a background is present in the DRAINS model, this will be transferred with the ESRI files. The transferred files can now be viewed in ArcView and ArcMap:


A database table is associated with each theme, as shown below:


Note that this includes results with the "5Yr" added to headings as a suffix. If another run is made and the process is repeated with one of the existing shapefiles nominated in the Save As dialog box, additional results will be appended, as shown below:



If data from a GIS data base can be assembled into this same format, less the results, the  Import  ► ESRI Shapefiles option from the File menu can be used to import data into DRAINS.


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