FAQ: Why Are the Results of a Clip in ArcGIS Different from the Results of a Clip in Arcvi

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ArcGIS has a different underlying spatial grid from Arcview 3.x. ArcGIS uses an integer grid while Arcview 3.x uses double precision. This difference causes the shapefiles created from the results of a clip on the same dataset to be of a different accuracy in the different applications.

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