Exporting to notes table (Maritime Charting)

You can export notes in your DNC geodatabase to ASCII files using the Export NOTES.RAT tool in ArcCatalog.

Conversion to VPF is done through the VPF Kit tools available in Nautical Solution Workstation. These tools require DNC notes.rat tables as stand-alone text files that will be directly exported to VPF. The Export NOTES.RAT tool on the Nautical DNC toolbar in ArcCatalog creates these notes.rat text files.

Note tables are exported to ASCII .txt files. For example, the geodatabase note table hydnotestable will be exported and named hydnotestable.txt.

The geodatabase notes join table is exported to an INFO table in the same output location. It is named notes.njt. This table is used to reattach note IDs to ArcInfo coverages created from the same DNC geodatabase.

It is recommended that the output location be the same workspace specified during export to coverage.

Note:

This tool will be removed in the 10.2.1 release.

Steps:

1. Start ArcCatalog.
2. On the main menu, click Customize > Extensions and verify that all applicable extensions are checked.

   You need Production Mapping and Nautical Solution.

3. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Production Mapping.

   The Production Mapping toolbar appears.

4. On the main menu, click Customize > Toolbars > Nautical DNC.

   The Nautical DNC toolbar appears.

5. In the Catalog Tree window, select the geodatabase containing the notes.rat records to be exported.
6. Click the Export NOTES.RAT button on the Nautical DNC toolbar.

   The Export Notes dialog box appears. In the geodatabase, the notes.rat tables are stored in layer/group theme-specific tables.

7. Check the check boxes next to the tables you want to export or click Select All.
8. Click Browse and navigate to a location in which to save the notes tables.
9. Click Apply.

An ASCII file is created for each note table exported, and it is named with a .txt extension.