ESRI GIS Model Builder
Who here loves Model Builder? Well, if you haven't had a reason to use it before, let's chat about it's benefits. Prior to my working at an engineering firm, I never had a reason to use it. There wasn't anything that I did on a regular basis that called for it. I took all of the classes, read all of the books, and I just didn't get why it was useful. Then, I was asked to convert utilities for a project. Not just once, but on a weekly basis. Start to finish, it took me two weeks to convert and clean up the utilities from CAD on that beastly project. Two. VERY. PAINFUL. Weeks. *Bang head against desk here.* This meant the utilities were never up to date in the project map. After two months of figuring out the kinks in the conversion process, I was challenged to create a model of this process. It looked something like this: Yes I'm OCD, and everything has to line up pretty. My first model. I had my doubts that it would improve my two w