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  • Re: MIKE URBAN STOP WORKING

    Not sure exactly what the large task is you're trying to do, but here's some workarounds I go to when Mike Urban crashes while trying to do something with a large number of elements:

    [list]
    [li]If it's something just involving the tables, try using Microsoft Access, possibly using an Action Query of some type[/li]
    [li]If it's something geospatial, use ArcGIS Desktop, it's a little more robust with large numbers of elements[/li]
    [li]Compact and repair your database in Microsoft Access before attempting the task[/li]
    [li]Close and re-open Mike Urban so the Mike Urban instance is fresh (at least in my experience, the Mike Urban process usually hangs when you exit, so go into Windows task manager, and kill it to truly restart from scratch)[/li]
    [li]You may also be able to use the Import/Export tool's Advanced functionality to write some scripting to do what you want for certain tasks[/li]
    [li]If you're ok with SQL, you may be able to use the Tools > General SQL Command... tool to directly edit the database (usually, Microsoft Access works a little easier if you're not too familiar with SQL)[/li]
    [/list]
  • Re: MIKE URBAN STOP WORKING

    Welcome to Mike Urban :)
  • Re: How to use scenario manager

    Regarding the error message, you can try opening up the table mw_MDemand in something like Microsoft Access and look for nulls/blanks in the values in the two columns JunctionID and Sqn:

    [list]
    [li]JunctionID should be the MUID for the nodes to which the demand is assigned. If there's a blank in this column, try to figure out what node the demand should be assigned to and enter its MUID. [/li]
    [li]Sqn is an integer, if there are blanks here and you have more than one demand for a node, just sequentially number them (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.). If there are blanks here and you only have one demand for each node, just enter 1 so that it's not blank anymore.[/li]
    [/list]

    If everything is empty in a row, it may have been added by mistake and can just be deleted.

    I'm not really sure on the Scenario Manager part, it sounds like you're setting it up right. I have seen in MOUSE at least when it throws that error about the "unpredictable behavior" it gives up and doesn't actually change the scenario.
  • Re: Edit Mike Urban

    No, I don't believe so. In my experience only one instance of the Mike Urban application will open and it can only load one model at a time. (Though they have a Close All and a Close toolbar button for some reason...this has made me wonder if there's some trick to getting a couple simultaneous models open). 

    I sometimes use multiple instances of Microsoft Access to edit the Mike Urban model if I need to move stuff in between models and you don't need the geospatial component. You could also work in ArcGIS Desktop, which allows multiple instances. Another Mike Urban tool for working with multiple models depending on what exactly you're wanting to do is the Import/Export Tool with Backup/Restore Simple XML to move model elements between multiple models.

    You can have multiple model simulations running, however. And you can edit separate model while a different one is running.
  • Re: Edit Mike Urban

    I haven't found a way to select two consecutive pipe elements and have them join with the click of a button, which is what I'm guessing you're looking for. If there's a couple I usually manually merge them, changing the TONODE in one pipe element and deleting the other along with the intermediate node, then fixing all the parameters affected.

    If you're doing this repeatedly, you may want to look into Mike Urban's Tools > Simplification... tool, which will merge pipelines for you based on criteria. The user interface is a little clunky (lots of steps), but it can do the actual merging, preserving the pipe element vertices. There isn't really a way to preserve MUIDs across this, so I find myself using ArcGIS Desktop's spatial join comprising a part of a line segment to get the old MUIDs back.
  • Re: Redefine Spatial References

    I'd take a look at ESRI's Batch Project tool (in the Projections and Transformations toolbox)
  • Re: I have solve rename MUID field

    I've also conducted this in Microsoft Access with action queries or find/replace, but the nice part about using the built-in field calculator is that some of the related tables will also change the MUIDs (not all of them).
  • Re: Dealing with Selection

    Happens pretty frequently to me too. Usually it's with large selections. Saving seems to still work, so sometimes I have luck saving back to an MUS and reloading it after clearing or restarting Mike Urban. Another work around I use pretty frequently is to just work with the feature sets in ArcGIS instead as it's selection capabilities are more robust.
  • Re: MIKE URBAN and ArcGIS

    I haven't had any luck with that, as I don't believe ESRI supports side-by-side instances of ArcGIS but this article may help if you only have one computer and really want it to be installed simultaneously:

    http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2009/10/23/installing-arcgis-9-4-and-can-you-leave-9-3-1-on-the-machine/
  • Re: boundary connection type

    Hello,

    I don't know anything about catchments, but MUS files are selection sets. You make them by selecting elements in Mike Urban then clicking the Save Selection button (right side of the Selection toolbar or using the menus Tools > Selection > Save Select). (It's just a text file of MUIDs prefaced with the element type; you can check it out by opening up one in a text editor after creating one).

    thanks,
    Brian