Creating a new stand-alone feature class to store routes

The following steps outline how you can create a new stand-alone feature class in a geodatabase to store routes.

Tip:

When creating a new feature class in a geodatabase, you can use another feature class as a template. Click Import, navigate to the feature class whose field definitions you want to copy, then click OK. You can edit the field names and types as required.

Learn more about creating a new feature class in a geodatabase

1. Right-click the geodatabase in the Catalog tree in which you want to create a new route feature class, and click New > Feature Class.
2. Type a name for the new feature class. To create an alias for this feature class, type the alias.
3. Click the drop-down arrow and click Line Features for the type of features to be stored in this feature class.
4. Check the check box beside Coordinates will include Ms.
5. Click Next.
6. Navigate to the spatial reference you want to use, or click Import and navigate to the feature class or feature dataset whose spatial reference you want to use as a template.
7. Click Next.
8. Enter an x,y tolerance or accept the default value. The default tolerance is 1 mm on the earth's surface at the point of projection.
9. Click Next.
10. If your geodatabase is not a file or enterprise geodatabase, skip to step 12. If you want to create the table using a custom storage keyword, click Use configuration keyword, then specify the keyword you want to use.

    Note:

    For an enterprise geodatabase, this applies to ArcGIS Desktop Advanced and ArcGIS Desktop Standard only.

11. Click Next.
12. Click the next blank row in the Field Name column to add the route identifier field to the feature class and type a new field name—for example, Route_ID.

    Tip:

    It is recommended that you create an attribute index on the route identifier field. This index will improve dynamic segmentation performance.

    Learn more about the route identifier field

13. Click in the Data Type column next to the new field's name and choose its data type.
14. Enter or choose the properties for the Field Properties.
15. Repeat steps 12 through 14 until all the fields for the feature class have been defined.
16. Click Finish.

Tip:

To learn about defining the measure properties of a route feature class, see Defining the measure properties of your m-coordinates.

Note:

The process of creating a route feature class in an existing feature dataset is similar to that of creating a stand-alone route feature class. However, steps 6 through 8 are not valid because all feature classes in a feature dataset share a common spatial reference, which was created when the feature dataset was created and cannot be changed. The exceptions are the m-tolerance, resolution, minimum, and maximum, which can be different for each feature class.