The Flow Direction tool now supports two new algorithms for determining the direction of flow. The Flow Accumulation tool now supports a new output data type of Double, to provide more accurate accumulation values.D8 Flow Accumulation illustration A new tool-Flow Distance-is available for calculating the minimum downslope distance for each cell to the stream into which they flow. The Nibble tool now supports parallel processing for enhanced performance. The Input zone raster parameter allows you to specify zones to control where nibbling occurs. With Nibble NoData cells, you can now specify whether or not NoData cells in the input raster that are within the mask can be nibbled to a value, or remain as NoData. The Nibble tool has two new parameters to give you more control over the nibbling process. The following tools now support parallel processing for enhanced performance: Cost Allocation, Cost Distance, Euclidean Allocation, and Euclidean Distance. This tool is similar to the Cost Path tool, but outputs the path as a polyline feature class instead of as a raster. A new tool, Cost Path as Polyline, is available. New parameters, options, tools, and environments are available in the following toolsets: The Create Network Dataset From Template tool creates a new network dataset using the schema from a template file. The Create Template From Network Dataset tool creates a file containing the schema of an existing network dataset. The Make Network Dataset Layer tool allows you to create a network dataset layer from another network dataset that is referenced using its catalog path. Three new tools are added to the Network Dataset toolset. The Create Raster Type geoprocessing tool is no longer supported. This geoprocessing tool performs batch processing on image collections in a mosaic dataset. A new tool is available in the Raster toolset: Generate Raster Collection. The Maximum vertices per polygon feature parameter allows you to specify a limit for when polygons are subdivided. The Create multipart features parameter specifies whether the output polygons will consist of single-part or multipart features. The Raster to Polygon tool in the From Raster toolset has two new parameters. Also, a new parameter, Processing Boundary, is available that allows a polygon feature class to be used to define an area of interest
The Surface Difference tool now supports a LAS dataset as input. The Change LAS Class Codes tool now supports classification flags. The Classify LAS Building tool is enhanced to improve overall performance and quality. The following changes have been made to existing tools:Classification of building rooftop points:
The Update Feature Z tool updates the z-coordinates of 3D feature vertices using a surface.
The Thin LAS tool creates new LAS files that contain a subset of LAS points from the input LAS dataset. The LAS Height Metrics tool calculates statistics about the distribution of elevation measurements of vegetation points captured in LAS data. The Colorize LAS tool creates new LAS files with RGB and infrared values using existing LAS files and imagery. The Classify LAS Overlap tool classifies LAS points from overlapping scans. The Classify LAS Noise tool classifies noise points in LIDAR data. Six new tools have been added to the 3D Analyst toolset:
This release is primarily a quality improvement release, but there are some changes in functionality.ĪrcMap 10.6 introduces new features and capabilities, which are described in the following sections ESRI is pleased to announce the availability of ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.