Installation
of ArcSDM3
- Installation of program files
- Starting a modeling project
- Files to be installed
- On-line Help
Unzipping files
Files provided on the web site
have been compressed into zip files. A directory structure has
been written to the zip file for the documentation files and the
sample data sets that needs to be reconstructed by your unzip
utility. If you are using WinZip, ensure that you have selected
the option to 'Use folder names'. It's can also be useful to NOT
have the 'Overwrite existing files' selected because a prompt
asking you if you want to overwrite an existing file will usually
signal a problem with the reconstruction of the directory
structure.
Installation of program files
To install ArcSDM3, a setup.exe
is provided along with all of the necessary files in a zip file.
The following steps are
recommended.
- Create
a folder named ArcSDM3 under the ArcGIS folder in your C directory where your
ArcMap software is installed.
- Extract
all of the files listed below from the zip file into the
ArcSDM3 folder.
- If
you have a previous version of ArcSDM3 for ArcMap installed, it is
necessary to uninstall that version before installing a new version. To
uninstall a previous version, do the following step:
- Go
to the Start Menu on your Windows Toolbar and select Settings/Control Panel
- From
the Control Window, select Add/Remove Programs.
- Select
and remove the ArcSDM3extension.
- Then
to install the new version of ArcSDM3, double click on the setup.exe in the
ArcSDM3
folder. If the setup gives a message that some file, such as an OCX
or OLB files, are newer on your system than the one being installed, always
accept to keep your newer file. Do not overwrite your newer file with an
older file from the setup.
- Start
ArcMap and activate the Spatial Analysis extension
- In
order to see the ArcSDM3 menu, it is necessary to install a customization.
Select the Tools menu and then the Customization submenu to install ArcSDM3 from a file. Select the SDMextension.dll for the file to install from the
folder Program Files/ArcSDM3extension folder. The ArcSDM3 menu should now
appear as a floating menu. It is sometimes necessary to also check on the
Spatial Data Modeler in the Toolbars menu under View drop-down menu.
- Before
using any of the ArcSDM3 menu functions, it is necessary to create a mapping
project as described next.
Starting a Modeling
Project
-
Before
you can start your modeling project in ArcSDM3, it is necessary to add a
point shapefile with the training sites and a study area grid that defines
the area to be analyzed. It is important that the first data added to
your project have at least the projection information in the metadata. This
will setup the projection and units parameters for your data frame. The
training-point shapefile is assumed to be the top-most layer and the study
area grid is assumed to be the bottom-most layer in the Table of Contents. The
cell size of the study area grid should be equal to the cell size of the
evidential grid with the smallest cell size.
This cell size is used to calculate the area of Missing Data in the study
area.
-
ArcMap
requires that all raster files (formerly called grid files) have a name of
11 characters or less. Because we use these file names in DBF files in
the ArcSDM3 processing, we require that raster files have names of 9
characters or less.
-
ArcSDM3
requires that all layers used be permanent.
-
Change
the name of the Data Frame to some appropriate name for the project. ArcMap
gives a default name of Layers to the first Data Frame and New Data Frame to
subsequent Data Frames. So it is useful to rename these in the Data Frame
properties menus. The name of the Data Frame is used to store the ArcSDM
modeling parameters.
-
Save the project in the folder that will be the working folder to store all
the tables, etc. for the modeling work. This working folder does not have to
be the folder containing the input rasters.
If you intend to share your project with others on a different
computer all the data should be in one folder and the MXD File Map Properties should have the Data Source Options set to
Relative Paths.
-
After
saving your ArcMap project, the
help button on the ArcSDM3 menu can be clicked to read the documentation. The
first time you click Help on the ArcSDM3 menu, you will be asked to find the
Documentation folder. Assuming you store it in the ArcSDM3 folder under the
ArcGIS folder on your drive C, navigate to the Documents folder and click
OK. The Documentation should now open.
-
If
you want to click Help before adding data and saving your project, the
ArcSDM3
Help button will ask you to save your map before the Help will
activate.
-
Modeling
using ArcSDM3 can now begin by setting the modeling parameters.
Files contained in the source zip files.
Filename |
Description |
Documentation folder |
Help files for the
Extension |
setup.exe |
ArcSDM3
Extension setup for
installation |
SETUP.LST |
Used by setup.exe for
installation |
SDMExtension.CAB |
Used by setup.exe for
installation |
sdmlr.exe |
Executable
file that runs logistic regression functions. |
DataXplore.exe |
Executable
file that runs the DataXplore neural network module. |
mfc42.dll |
Application
extension required by DataXplore.exe. |
msvcrt.dll |
Application
extension required by DataXplore.exe. |
GeoXplore.exe |
Executable file that runs the GeoXplore neural network
module |
When the ArcSDM3 extension
loads:
|
The
following items are loaded to the project file:
|
...
is /are added to...
|
|
The Spatial Analyst extension
(SA) must be loaded before ArcSDM3 can be activated. The ArcSDM3 extension uses classes and
functionality provided by the Spatial Analyst extension
and cannot be loaded if SA is not installed.
|
(When
installed, Spatial Analyst is fully documented in the ArcMap on-line help.) |
User
Interface |
All ArcSDM3 menus and functionality are contained in
the Spatial Data Modeler floating tool bar. The Spatial Data Modeler
drop-down list contains all the menus and functionality. The Help button
starts the ArcSDM3 Documentation. The About button provides information
about the source of the code and the version. |
the menu bar
to the right of Spatial Analyst's Surface menu in the
View document GUI |
"Behind
the scenes" |
DLLs and EXEs used by
ArcSDM3 |
the ArcMap system
scripts |
Installation of On-line Documentation
Options:
Using documentation on CD: This
method is not recommended.
- The first time you invoke the
on-line help you will be prompted to specify
the location of sdmhelp.htm.
- Navigate to the Documentation folder in the
ArcSDM3
folder, select sdmhelp.htm and click
OK.
Using documentation on
your hard drive: This method is recommended.
- Either
copy the contents of the Documentation directory to a directory of your choice on your hard drive.
or
download one of the zip files that contains the
documentation files from the ArcSDM web site.
Unzip these files in the ArcSDM3 folder on your hard drive. This will
create a new folder, Documentation, with the help files. This is the
recommended installation of the Documentation.
- The first time you invoke the
on-line help from ArcMap you will be prompted to specify
the location of sdmhelp.htm.
- Navigate to the file, select
and click OK.