Configure application settings

ArcGIS Drone2Map has many options that can be set either for the current project or for the application. To access these options, do one of the following:

• From an open project, click the Project tab on the ribbon, and from the lis, click Settings.
• From the Drone2Map state page, click About Drone2Map in the lower corner, and from the list, click Settings.

Adjust the settings for a new project

The New Project settings allow you to set defaults for where projects are saved, where to start browsing for source images, and which project template to use. These settings help you get projects started quickly.

To adjust the default settings for a new project, complete the following steps:

1. Select New Project under the Application heading.
2. Click the folder button and select a default project folder.
3. Click the folder button and select a default batch project folder.
4. Click the folder button and set a default source imagery folder.
5. Click the folder button and set a default custom template.

   Optionally, select a template from the default project template drop-down list.

You can set both a default custom template and a default project template. When Drone2Map opens or when you click the New page on the Project tab, the default project template is highlighted. Click Browse to Template to open the file path of the default custom template.
6. For default image and project coordinate system options, accept the defaults or click Set Horizontal and Vertical Spatial Reference and select default coordinate systems and default vertical references.
7. Click OK.

Adjust ground control settings

Use the ground control settings to set a default location, delimiter type, coordinate system, and vertical reference for your control.

To adjust the ground control settings, complete the following steps:

1. Select Control under the Application heading.
2. Click Browse and select the default folder location for importing control.
3. Select comma, tab, colon, or pipe from the default delimiter drop-down list.
4. Accept the default or click Set Horizontal and Vertical Spatial Reference to select a default coordinate system and default vertical reference.
5. Click the symbol depicting the current default ground control point, check point, or image link symbol to change it.
6. Click the color drop-down menu to define a new default color for ground control points, check points, or image links.
7. Click the arrows on the size box to increase or decrease the symbol size, or provide a value in points.
8. Click OK.

Display settings

Drone2Map allows you to customize the drawing of maps and scenes. Display options control how maps are rendered and affect the quality and performance of drawing. You can modify settings for the following items:

• Antialiasing mode
• Text antialiasing mode
• Rendering quality
• Rendering engine
• Vertical synchronization
• Hardware antialiasing
• Local cache

For more information about display settings, see Display settings.

General settings

General settings allow you to set defaults for how Drone2Map logging, basemaps, and elevation sources function. On the Settings dialog box, on the General tab, you can set the default options described below.

Level for messages logged by Drone2Map

You can set different levels of logging messages. This is useful when requesting support to provide additional information as needed. Drone2Map supports the following levels:

• Trace—Designates finer-grained informational events than the debug option. The most detailed level of logging.
• Debug—Designates fine-grained informational events that are most useful to debug an application.
• Info—Designates informational messages that highlight the progress of the application at coarse-grained level. This is the default setting.

To undo a selection, click Reset to Defaults before saving your changes.

Note:

Changing the log level requires an application restart to take effect.

Default basemap

The basemap used on new projects follows the default basemap of your organization. You can change it to a custom basemap or no basemap.

Default elevation source

The World Elevation Service is the default elevation source. You can change it by browsing to a custom elevation surface.

Warnings

The Flight Altitude Accuracy warning can be disabled by checking the box under this section or by checking the box when the pop-up appears. This change will remain for future projects and the next time a flight's altitude is below the expected threshold, the warning will not appear.

Hardware settings

CPU Threads specifies the number of central processing unit (CPU) threads dedicated to processing new projects. Slide the bar in either direction to adjust the number of CPU threads.

Note:

The CPU Threads and general GPU settings can also be customized at the project level in the project’s processing options.

Temperature settings

The temperature settings provide a drop-down menu to specify the default temperature units used for thermal output products. The options are Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Help source

Drone2Map has an online help system and an offline (installed) help system. These two resources generally have the same content, but the online help may be more current.

• Online help from the Internet —The Drone2Map help system opens in your default web browser. This is the default setting.
• Offline help from your computer (installed)—The Drone2Map help system opens in an application on your computer. It is installed alongside Drone2Map by default.

Note:

If you frequently work in a disconnected environment, it is recommended that you use the offline help system.

Application reporting

The Esri User Experience Improvement (EUEI) program helps Esri improve the interface and usability of Drone2Map. You choose to participate with this program and can also define the reporting region to comply with privacy standards.

Error reporting can be disabled so Drone2Map will not show the error report submission window. To learn more about error reporting, see Report software errors.

Editing toolbar

Enable the editing toolbar if you want it to appear when you create features or modify them with interactive editing tools. Disable the toolbar to hide it and use only ribbon commands, context menus, and keyboard shortcuts.

User camera database settings

These are functional buttons that allow you to modify the user camera database by importing, exporting, or deleting it.

Sharing settings

Configure default sharing tags to be used when sharing any type of product.

Configure catalog settings

You can configure projects to have a default local and web catalog defined. You can also automatically add project layers to those catalogs, and specify a default shared storage path for newly shared catalogs.

To configure catalog settings, complete the following steps:

1. Click Browse and choose the default local catalog dataset.
2. Optionally, check the Automatically add layers to local catalog check box to automatically write all project layers to the default local catalog.
3. Click Browse and choose the default web catalog dataset.
4. Optionally, check the Automatically add layers to web catalog check box to automatically write all project layers to the default web catalog.
5. Click Browse and choose the default shared storage folder that will be used for new shared catalog datasets.

Reset all settings

To return all Drone2Mapsettings to their original state, click Reset to Defaults.

Configure inspection settings

Inspection settings allow you to define a default inspection report title, inspection report logo, database schema, and overview map scale.

To configure the inspection settings, complete the following steps:

1. Click on the dialog box to provide a default report title.
2. Click Browse and choose the default folder location for the inspection report logo.
3. Click Browse and choose the default scheme .json file to be used for inspections.
4. Check the Attach Feature Snapshots check box to save snapshots as attachments for the inspection feature layer when sharing.

   This causes the snapshots to appear in pop-ups.

5. Use the map scale box to define a default overview map scale.

Language settings

Language settings allow you to set the display and proofing language if you have an ArcGIS language pack installed. You can also set your online help system language to supported languages.

For more information about language settings, see Configure language settings.

Navigation settings

You can customize the default experience for 2D and 3D maps in Drone2Map. These settings control how you orient the view, identify features, and navigate and manage the extent.

On the Settings dialog box, on the Navigation tab, you can set the following:

• Mouse wheel roll forward—Zoom in and out on a view. By default, Zooms in is selected. With this option, when you rotate the wheel button forward, you zoom in on the view. Select Zooms out to reverse this behavior.
• Transition time—Control the amount of time the application takes to move from one area to another. By default, this option is set to zero (0) seconds. You can increase the transition time to slow the navigation between locations.
• Enable panning gestures—Enable navigation assistance when panning maps, scenes, and layout views. When you click and release the mouse button, the application assists in navigating toward the direction the mouse was released, such as a push or pull to glide in that direction. This option is checked by default. If you uncheck this option, no assistance is provided.
• Follow terrain during roam—Specific to 3D navigation, maintain your position above ground, so it stays fixed even as you move forward, backward, uphill, or downhill. The view avoids bumping into or going through hills and can be useful when using roam near street-level navigation in hilly cities. When this option is checked, the wheel button can still be used for zooming in and out and changing the camera's altitude. This option is not checked by default.
• Show distance to cursor—Specific to 3D navigation, display the straight line distance from your view position to a location in the view, such as a mountaintop or corner of a building. The value displays on the status bar at the bottom of the view, next to the coordinate display units. This option is not checked by default.
• First person navigation speed exaggeration—Specific to 3D navigation, control the initial camera travel speed when first-person navigation mode is enabled.
• On Screen Navigator
  • Show Navigator when opening 2D views—By default, no navigator control shows when a new 2D map view is opened. You can configure 2D maps to always open showing the navigator using Heading or Full Control mode.
  • Show Navigator when opening 3D views—By default, the navigator control shows in Heading mode, allowing you to always know where north is and click to reset the view to north. Click and drag the outer ring to pan around the scene. Optionally, configure 3D views to always open with the navigator maximized for full control or no navigator at all.
  • Default Navigator size—Adjust the initial size of the navigator as it will appear each time in a view.
• Pop-ups:
  • Use classic pop-up mode—Override the default styling and use the classic pop-up styling at all times.
  • Honor dark theme—Use the dark theme when the application is in this mode. This option is on by default. Turn it off to display the attribute portion of pop-ups in the light theme styling regardless of the application setting.
  • Block JavaScript content—Block pop-ups that contain JavaScript content. This option is on by default.
  • Show crosshairs when flashing—Display four lines that draw from the outer edge of the map view to center on a flashed feature.
  • Include the selection buffer when identifying features—Include the selection pixel buffer when performing a single-click identification. In a 2D map, a circular buffer is applied; in a 3D scene, a cube is used.
  • Show pop-up title—Show the pop-up title at the top of the attribute portion of a pop-up.
  • Show feature coordinate value—Show the feature coordinate value at the bottom of the pop-up.

Raster and imagery settings

The raster and imagery default options allow you to change settings, which will be applied to all your imagery and raster datasets.

The raster and imagery settings consist of the following categories:

• Appearance
• Cache
• Raster Dataset
• Mosaic Dataset
• Raster Formats

For more information about raster and imagery default settings, see Raster and imagery default settings.

Selection settings

You can review and set the selection settings before you begin selecting features.

On the project Settings dialog box, on the Selection tab, you can set the following default interactive selection settings:

• Selection color—Specifies the color of the selected features. The default is cyan.
  • For polygons only, you can apply a selection color and fill to the interior. You can choose from a hatched fill or a solid fill.
  • You can override the default selection color for an individual layer using the Layer Properties dialog box.
• Interactive selection mode—Specify how the shapes you digitize will be used to select features. The options are as follows:
  • Select features that are partially or completely within the selection graphic shape. This is the default.
  • Select features that are completely contained by the selection shape (2D only).
• Selection combination mode—Specify the behavior when selecting multiple features. This can be configured to any of the following:
  • Create a selection set of features each time you digitize with a selection tool. This is the default.
  • Add to the current selection set (press Shift+K while clicking).
  • Remove features from the current selection set (press Ctrl while clicking).
  • Select features from the current selection set (press Ctrl+Shift while clicking).

• Save layers and tables with their current selection—Maintain the selection for the layers or tables when a project is reopened. This option is enabled by default.
• Display the interactive selection graphic—Maintain the selection shape graphic after drawing a selection shape. This can be useful for making additional dynamic interactive selections. Click and drag the graphic to a new location and update the selection. You can also resize the graphic by clicking and dragging one of its handles.
• Show the selection chip—Control whether the selection chip appears near the pointer when you select coincident or overlapping features. and display the selection list so you can click the desired feature. This option is enabled by default.
• Keep invisible features selected with a new selection—Maintain the selection set for layers that you turn off before making a new selection.
• Buffer the clicked lcoation to include features within [x] pixels—Apply a rectangular buffer (in pixels) around the location when making a selection or opening a pop-up using a single click.

Units settings

Units settings define the units used in the current project.

On the Settings dialog box, on the Units tab, you can set the units for the following categories:

• Distance units
• Angular units
• Area units
• Location units
• Direction units
• Page units
• 2D symbol display units
• 3D symbol display units

For each unit category, a button will specify the default unit for the project. For more information about units in Drone2Map, see Map units, location units, and display units.