ArcGIS Pro 3.7 is here, and we are excited to share what’s new and improved.

This release introduces new capabilities that reduce the need to duplicate maps, provide earlier insight into potential performance issues, and speed up many common workflows. With new tools to automatically extract features from scanned maps, the ability to control layer visibility by map frame in layouts, and much more, the improvements support more efficient, predictable work in ArcGIS Pro.

Continue reading to learn more or watch the following video to catch the release highlights.

What’s New

Control Layer Visibility by Map Frame

Say goodbye to duplicating a map each time a different set of layers needs to be displayed. In a layout with multiple map frames that point to the same map, you can now turn layers on and off by map frame without impacting the other ones. This makes it much easier to create, for example, comparison layouts, map books, or reports where one frame shows regional context and another highlights specific details, all without duplicating content. Read this blog to learn more.

Custom Toolbars

Customizable toolbars enable you to cut down on tab switching and extra clicks. With ArcGIS Pro 3.7, you can tailor your toolbars to include the tools and actions you use most frequently. This is especially helpful when views are undocked from the main application and dragged to another monitor.

Analyze Map Performance

Get a clear picture of how your map content, like symbology or data, may be causing performance issues so you can resolve them early. ArcGIS Pro 3.7 introduces the Analyze Map functionality, which surfaces many potential performance issues as well as suggested fixes. There are three categories of  potential issues you may see, in order of priority: Error (must be fixed), Warning (should be fixed), and Message (optional to fix but will improve performance).

Extract Lines and Polygons from Scanned Images

Reduce the amount of manual digitization needed when working with scanned map images. ArcGIS Pro 3.7 introduces the Extract Scanned Lines and Extract Scanned Polygons tools that automatically generate features from scanned map images. Extract lines for things like elevation contours, rivers, or soil boundaries, and extract polygons for things like building footprints or land use areas.

Explore More New Features

• New Documentation Experience: Leverage a new documentation experience for both online and offline help. Online help has moved from pro.arcgis.com to doc.esri.com and global performance has been significantly improved. Offline help is now accessed through ArcGIS Documentation Center using a unified documentation experience. Read this blog to learn more.
• Telecom Domain Networks: Address the scale and complexity of real-world telecom networks with the new telecom domain network configuration for ArcGIS Utility Network.
• Embeddings Based Analysis: Transform imagery, geographic features, and text into AI-generated vector representations to more easily find patterns and similarities with the new Embeddings Based Analysis GeoAI toolset.
• File Knowledge Graph: Create and manage a file knowledge graph in ArcGIS Pro in a local folder, without needing ArcGIS Enterprise. By creating this data model that represents real world systems, you can analyze relationships between spatial and nonspatial data to uncover patterns, trends, and insights. Read this blog to learn more.

What’s Improved

• Distribute System Favorites: Your commonly used items like styles, folders, databases, server connections, and more are now organized under My Favorites. This release gives administrators the ability to distribute system favorites, which provide every team member consistent access to items established by your organization and appear alongside personal favorites.
• Select Features Using Geometry: Choose to select features based on the underlying geometry rather than symbology. This is especially helpful when precision matters as it improves accuracy when working with things like dashed lines, offsets, or complex symbols.
• Smarter Search for Symbols: Make sure you have semantic search enabled to leverage the new ability to search for symbols using natural language and conceptual terms. This makes it much easier to find an appropriate symbol without knowing its exact name. For example, search for symbols by typing what you’re looking for like ‘emergency’ or ‘medical’ and get relevant symbols even if they use different terminology.
• Duplicate and Sort Definition Queries: Duplicate and sort your definition queries to more easily manage multiple filters with similar components.
• Document Your Geoprocessing History: Previously run tools are stored and available to review in geoprocessing history. Help your future self and teammates by adding descriptive notes to these entries to better document what was run and why.
• Pause Drawing in Layouts: Keep layout work running smoothly with the Pause Drawing button that now fully pauses all dynamic layout elements. This allows you to continue making edits without waiting for the layout to redraw each time.
• Clone Python Environments: Easily clone Python environments on disconnected machines. This means faster and more reliable environment creation in secure or offline environments, making it easier to test changes, troubleshoot issues, or share consistent Python setups across teams.
• Modify the Google Photorealistic 3D Basemap: Get the most out of the Google Photorealistic 3D basemap with the ability to replace portions of the mesh and insert your own more detailed data. This enables more flexible 3D visualization and analysis without recreating entire surfaces.

What’s Faster

• ArcGIS Pro map files (.mapx) and layout files (.pagx) now have increased drawing speed and responsiveness, meaning they can be imported significantly faster.
• LAZ file performance was improved with the ability to generate statistics and create a spatial index, and to decompress LAZ files in parallel.
• Deleting features in a relationship class is now faster.
• Whether adding enterprise geodatabase data to a map or opening a map that contains such data, the workflow is now significantly faster.

Updates to the Tools that Extend ArcGIS Pro’s Capabilities

To learn more about the enhancements made to the tools that extend ArcGIS Pro’s capabilities, check out the following resources:

• What’s new in the ArcGIS Pro SDK
• What’s new in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
• What’s new in ArcGIS Data Reviewer
• What’s new in ArcGIS Aviation
• What’s new in ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro
• Leverage a unified metadata experience across ArcGIS
• Automatically render S-101 Electronic Navigational Chart datasets according to official international symbology standards
• Learn about what’s newly available in ArcGIS Living Atlas
  • 40 Years of Analysis-Ready Annual NLCD Land Cover
  • The newest American Community Survey (ACS) layers
  • Cloud Cover Across the U.S.

This is a glimpse of how we’ve improved the tools you trust, while adding many new capabilities to help you get more done in ArcGIS Pro. Visit the ArcGIS Pro help documentation to explore all the new features. Happy mapping!

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