Esri Shape Writer Parameters

Shapefiles produced will contain two-dimensional coordinate geometry and will be compatible with ArcView 3 and earlier versions, and all versions of ArcExplorer.

Shapefiles produced will contain two-dimensional coordinate geometry and measures. They can be read by ArcView 3.1 and later versions.

Shapefiles produced will contain three-dimensional coordinate geometry and measures. They can be read by ArcView 3.1 and later versions.

When the checkbox is selected, the writer changes attribute names to uppercase text. When the checkbox is cleared (default setting), mixed-case attribute names will be allowed.

Note: Since this parameter is used when generating an initial workspace, it is not editable in Workbench after the workspace has been generated.

The writer will write out input 3D surfaces and solids as shape_multipatch to preserve their original structure.

The writer will write out input 3D surfaces and solids as shape_polygonz to break them down into polygon components.

Specifies whether or not to generate spatial index files when writing shapefiles. Writing spatial index files requires that ArcGIS be installed on the machine running the workspace.

If any attributes are flagged for indexing, spatial indexes are produced regardless of this setting. For more information, see Writing Attribute Indexes.

When selected, this option creates a single zipped .shz file that contains all the files that comprise a Shape dataset.

For example, coast.shz will contain coast.shp, coast.dbf, coast.shx, and optionally other shapefiles if applicable.

This optional specification controls how measures data associated with geometric data is treated. The default is set to No. If the value is Yes, measures data is treated as elevations.

By default, the writer produces ANSI-encoded output. If this parameter is set to another encoding, the writer will transcode the data to the specified encoding.

By default, this parameter specifies that the writer should write shapefiles that are compatible with other products by taking a stricter interpretation of the specification.

This parameter is used when executing workspaces. As a result, it is not editable after the workspace has been generated.

This advanced option specifies whether the writer should:

• preserve the order of the vertexes within the rings of polygons and donuts of input features (Yes), or
• force ring vertex order to be compatible with the format specification by orienting the ring vertexes to identify inner and outer rings and allow disambiguation of aggregates and donuts (No).

Note that ellipses are stroked into polygons with counterclockwise orientation and thus also may be affected by the option to not orient the rings properly as clockwise according to the specification.

Note also that because the vertex order is the only mechanism to distinguish between donut and aggregate geometry types when there are multiple polygon rings, the type may not be the same when read back if the input vertex order is preserved but does not match the input geometry type vertex order requirements.

The safest setting for this advanced option is to leave it at the default value of No.