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Create Range Rings Interactively

This workflow demonstrates how to interactively create range rings by clicking the map.

Description

You can create range rings and radials on a map. Range rings can be created interactively or from a known center point and distance between rings values. When creating range rings from known distances between rings, the rings can be drawn at a fixed interval based on a distance from the origin point or cumulatively based on a distance from the previous ring.

Interactive Range Ring

Prerequisites

  • You must have a project with a map open.

Tools and commands used

Steps

  1. Click the Map tab.

  2. Click Distance and Direction in the Inquiry group .

    The Distance and Direction pane opens.

  3. Click the Rings tab.

  4. Click Map Point Tool

  5. Click a location on the map to designate the center point of the ring or rings.

  6. In the Ring Type drop-down list, click Interactive.

  7. Click the map to designate the diameter of the next ring. Add rings as necessary and double-click to finish.

    Range Rings are created and added to the map.

Alternate workflows

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