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Apply Radial Tree Layout (Network Diagram Tools)

Summary

Arranges diagram features hierarchically and places them in a radial tree.

Learn more about the Radial Tree layout algorithm

Caution:

If you have an open edit session, you must save your edits prior to running this tool. This ensures that the diagram reflects the latest changes made to the network topology in the database. If you fail to save your edits, the edits will not be reflected in the diagram.

License:

The active portal account must be assigned a license with the ArcGIS Advanced Editing user type extension to use this tool in an enterprise deployment.

Note:

Each layout algorithm includes default parameter values. The default parameter values will be used unless otherwise specified. If the input network diagram is based on a template for which this layout has been configured with a different parameter value, that value will be used instead.

Usage

  • This tool is not supported when working with a database connection to a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase. You must use either the related published utility network or trace network service, or a utility network or trace network in a file or mobile geodatabase.

  • The input network diagram layer must be from either a utility network or a trace network in a file or mobile geodatabase. or a network diagram service.

  • This layout algorithm arranges the diagram features hierarchically and places them in a radial tree according to the specified radius parameters. It works from a root junction that it uses as the circle center to arrange the subtrees starting from this root in concentric circles, each circle corresponding to one hierarchical level.

  • If no root junction is specified, the algorithm identifies the diagram junction associated with the smallest network topology index and uses this junction as the root junction.

    If a diagram junction is specified as a root junction, the radial tree uses this root junction as the center of the concentric circles.

    When several root junctions are specified in the diagram, those root junctions are placed around a first concentric circle with a fictitious center.

  • Consider applying the layout in asynchronous mode on the server when working on very large diagrams.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Input Network Diagram Layer

The network diagram to which the layout will be applied.

Diagram Layer

Preserve container layout

(Optional)

Specifies how the layout algorithm will process containers.

  • Checked—The layout algorithm will apply to the top graph of the diagram so container layouts are preserved.

  • Unchecked—The layout algorithm will apply to both content and noncontent features in the diagram. This is the default.

Boolean

Spacing values interpreted as absolute units in the diagram coordinate system

(Optional)

Specifies how parameters representing distances will be interpreted.

  • Checked—The layout algorithm will interpret distance values as linear units.

  • Unchecked—The layout algorithm will interpret distance values as relative units to an estimation of the average of the junction sizes in the current diagram extent. This is the default.

Boolean

Initial Radius

(Optional)

The radius of the first concentric circle whose center is the radial tree root junction—that is, the radius of the circle around which the diagram junctions belonging to the first hierarchical level are placed. The default is 5 in the units of the diagram's coordinate system. This parameter can only be used with absolute units.

Linear Unit

Initial Radius

(Optional)

The radius of the first concentric circle whose center is the radial tree root junction—that is, the radius of the circle around which the diagram junctions belonging to the first hierarchical level are placed. The default is 5. This parameter can only be used with proportional units.

Double

Between Disjoined Graphs

(Optional)

The minimum spacing that will separate features belonging to disjoined graphs when the diagram contains such graphs. This parameter is used with absolute units. The default is 10 in the units of the diagram's coordinate system.

Linear Unit

Between Disjoined Graphs

(Optional)

The minimum spacing that will separate features belonging to disjoined graphs when the diagram contains such graphs. This parameter is used with proportional units. The default is 10.

Double

Radius Factor

(Optional)

The multiplicative factor that will be used to increase or decrease the radius of each concentric circle. It is also the distance that separates each concentric circle related to a hierarchical level. When using a radius factor less than 1, the distance that separates the diagram junctions belonging to the (n) hierarchical level and the (n+1) hierarchical level progressively decreases. With a factor greater than 1, the distance between the hierarchical levels increases progressively. The default is 1.

Double

Run in asynchronous mode on the server

(Optional)

Specifies whether the layout algorithm will run asynchronously or synchronously on the server.

  • Checked—The layout algorithm will run asynchronously on the server. This option dedicates server resources to run the layout algorithm with a longer time-out. Running asynchronously is recommended for layouts that are time consuming and may exceed the server time-out (for example, Partial Overlapping Edges) and applying to large diagrams (more than 25,000 features).

  • Unchecked—The layout algorithm will run synchronously on the server. It can fail without completion if it exceeds the service default time-out value of 600 seconds. This is the default.

Boolean

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Output Network Diagram

The updated network diagram layer.

Diagram Layer

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: No
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes