Use the Projection Utility through the command line

Summary

The example in this article, reprojecting a shapefile from State Plane Coordinate System Wisconsin Central NAD 1983 to UTM Zone 16 NAD 1983, shows how to use the Projection Utility through the command line.

Procedure

1. Open a DOS window.
2. Navigate to the directory where the Projection Utility executable is located.
   
   

   Code:
   D:\>cd D:\esri32a\av_gis30\arcview\bin32

   
   
3. Run the Projection Utility.
   
   

   Code:
   D:\>projutil.exe 

   
   
4. Type the parameters to be passed to the utility. For our example:
   
   

   Code:
   D:\esri32a\av_gis30\arcview\bin32\>projutil.exe -IF c:\gisdata\WI_CENT.shp
   -OF c:\gisdata\WI_UTM16.shp -IC 32153 -OC 26916 -q

   
   Where:
   
   -IF: Pathname of the shapefile to re-projected.
   -OF: Pathname where the new shapefile will be written to.
   -IC: Code number for the Input Coordinate System.
   -OC: Code number for the Output Coordinate System.
   -q: Run the projection utility in quiet mode.
   
   For a complete list of codes, see the ArcView Help document, "Using the ArcView Projection Utility from a DOS prompt."
   
   You can find the code numbers for the Input and Output Coordinate System in the ArcView Help document, "Projected Coordinate Systems in the Projection Engine."