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Soil Data Viewer 6.1 Requirements ArcGIS Version C ompatibility Installing Soil Data Viewer 6.1 on a Non-USDA C C E Platform Registering Soil Data Viewer 6.1 as an Add-In to ArcMap Uninstalling Soil Data Viewer 5.x or 6.x Obtaining and Preparing Data for Use with Soil Data Viewer 6.1 Soil Data Viewer 6.1 Release Notes
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Access 2007 and 2010 users will need to enable all macros. Instructions for doing this are provided in the PDF file Enabling Macros in Microsoft Access. In order to be able to generate thematic soil maps, ArcGIS 10.0 or 10.1 must be installed. Please see section ArcGIS Version C ompatibility for additional information. If all requirements but the ArcGIS requirement are met, you can still install Soil Data Viewer and run it independent of ArcMap, but output is then limited to a tabular report. A PDF viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or some equivalent, must be installed on your computer in order to view reports created by the Soil Data Viewer application.
The login used to install Soil Data Viewer 6.1 must have administrator privileges. After downloading the Soil Data Viewer installer zip file, unzip the contents of that file into any folder. In the folder to which you unzipped the installer, double click the file named Soil_Data_Viewer_6.1.msi, or "Soil_Data_Viewer_6.1, depending on how your Folder Options are set. This will start the install process, which generally takes little more than a minute. Soil Data Viewer is automatically installed for all users. There is no option to install Soil Data Viewer for a specific user. The application itself will be installed to C :\Program Files (x86)\USDA\Soil Data Viewer 6.1. The install process will add a USDA Applications program group to your Start Menu, if such a group is not already present. To run Soil Data Viewer independent of ArcMap, select USDA Applications: Soils: Soil Data Viewer 6.1 from the Start Menu.
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If you dont see the Soil Data Viewer toolbar/button in ArcMap, when you think that you should: 1. Select Toolbars from ArcMaps C ustomization Menu. 2. Scan through the list that is displayed and look for Soil Data Viewer Toolbar. 3. If the list does not include Soil Data Viewer Toolbar, Soil Data Viewer has not yet been successfully registered as an add-in to ArcMap. 4. If the list does include Soil Data Viewer Toolbar, look to see if there is a check to the left of that entry. If there is, Soil Data Viewer Toolbar should already be visible in ArcMap. If there is no check to the left of Soil Data Viewer Toolbar, left click on Soil Data Viewer Toolbar to add the Soil Data Viewer toolbar to ArcMap. Please see the Soil Data Viewer 6.0 Online User Guide (which is also applicable to version 6.1) for instructions on running Soil Data Viewer 6.1 as an add-in to ArcMap.
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may be surprised to find that you can still run the Soil Data Viewer application from within ArcMap. When Soil Data Viewer 6.1 was registered as an add-in to ArcMap, ArcMap squirreled away its own copy of Soil Data Viewer 6.1. To ultimately remove Soil Data Viewer 6.1 as an add-in to ArcMap, start ArcMap, and from the C ustomize menu select Add-In Manager. After the Add-In Manager dialog is displayed, select the add-in labeled SDVArcMapAddin. This should cause the SDV add-in to be displayed in the panel to the right. In that panel, click Delete this Add-In.
Obtaining and Preparing Data for Use with Soil Data Viewer 6.1
The Soil Data Viewer 6.0 Online User Guide (which is also applicable to version 6.1) contains detailed instructions for obtaining and preparing data for use with Soil Data Viewer 6.1. Soil Data Viewer 6.1 operates on data that can be downloaded from the Web Soil Survey website. Some version of Microsoft Access must be installed. The tabular soil data accessed by Soil Data Viewer must reside in a Microsoft Access SSURGO template database, and Microsoft Access is required to be able to import that data. A request to download data for a survey area typically includes a request for a SSURGO template database, but you can also download a SSURGO template database independent of a request for survey area data from Web Soil Survey by clicking on the Start WSS button, Download Soils Data tab, and Download SSURGO Template Database bar. Only SSURGO template databases at versions 36 are compatible with Soil Data Viewer 6.1.
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The only thing new about Soil Data Viewer 6.1 is that it works with Windows 7 Professional x64 and ArcGIS 10.0.
Known Issues
1. When running Soil Data Viewer standalone. i.e. not as an add-in to ArcMap, the bottom of each page in both an Aggregation Report and a Map Unit Description report includes a license warning for the software we used to create these reports. This problem does not occur when running Soil Data Viewer as an add-in to ArcMap. 2. The following sequence of actions results in a Shapefile already exists. error. a. Start ArcMap. b. Start Soil Data Viewer under ArcMap. c. C reate a thematic map. d. C lose and restart Soil Data Viewer under ArcMap. e. C reate a thematic map. This issue has existed since Soil Data Viewer 5.0. When this issue occurs, clicking the C lear Themes button should allow you to proceed.
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