Many utilities find themselves swimming in a sea of feature-linked annotation.  The primary motivation for using feature-linked annotation rather than labeling was to be able to freely move the annotation features to the cartographic position of your choosing.  Today you can achieve the same freedom of movement with labels and better yet preserve the coordinate [...]

This ArcFM Buzz blog post is the twelfth in a series which will explore the functionality of ArcFM Advanced Labeling.  If you aren’t familiar with the basics of AAL, please read the first post in the series to get quickly up to speed. In a previous AAL post, we looked at symbolizing and selecting using [...]

This ArcFM Buzz blog post is the eleventh in a series which will explore the functionality of ArcFM Advanced Labeling.  If you aren’t familiar with the basics of AAL, please read the first post in the series to get quickly up to speed. The Smart Grid is here. Utilities everywhere are rapidly planning and deploying [...]

New from Telvent’s Delivery Team is a useful and flexible autoupdater (AU) designed to solve a familiar problem – rotating anchor guys when they are placed.  This custom AU establishes the correct rotation angle for anchor guys by inspecting the geometry of nearby conductor and then setting the SYMBOLROTATION field for the guy. The AU [...]

This ArcFM Buzz blog post is the tenth in a series which will explore the functionality of ArcFM Advanced Labeling.  If you aren’t familiar with the basics of AAL, please read the first post in the series to get quickly up to speed. Many utilities make use of feature-linked annotation in order to fulfill their [...]