HOW TO
In ARCPLOT, the MAPEXTENT commands sets the extent to be larger than the coverage's actual extent.
The MAPEXTENT command in ARCPLOT or ARCEDIT will set the extent to be 5% more than the extent of the coverage (which allows tics to be displayed). The below SML code will remove the 5% increase from the current mapextent. Note, if you run this more than once, the mapextent will be decreased by an additional 5% each time.
Code:
&rem REMAP.SML
&rem Recalculate original mapext after
&rem ARCPLOT has increased by 5%.
show mapext 1 2 3 4
&cv 5 ( %4 - %2 ) * 0.045454545
&cv 6 ( %3 - %1 ) * 0.045454545
&goto OKAY &if &rn %5 %6 1e38
&sv 5 %6
&LABEL OKAY
&cv 1 %1 + %5
&cv 2 %2 + %5
&cv 3 %3 - %5
&cv 4 %4 - %5
mapext %1 %2 %3 %4
&return
Article ID:000005475
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