Hello,

I am using Raise wall to insert a dam in a DEM, but I am constantly getting the below error:

Kindly assist.

Thanks,

With the most recent WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS-master zip (downloaded today), as well as the first version I downloaded ~4 months ago, the "SmoothVegetationResidual" tool fails to open with the following error:

This error occurs prior to loading/selecting any files. My version of WBT is licensed with the GTE and I can verify that other licensed tools succeed in opening and running.

SmoothVegetationResidual also runs successfully when running from wb_runner.py
(Note: John Lindsay helped troubleshoot over chat and asked me to post the issue here, as it seems to be related to the Arc toolbox specifically)

Used machine learning tools to create classification data using the Kmeans cluster. The processing shows to be successful, however, we have no outputs in the specified folder. I am running the toolbox on ArcGIS desktop 10.8.1.
Thank you

I am trying to burn streams through roads for this raster. This is a 3DEP 1m DEM, which I applied a 3x3 round focal statistics mean smoothing to beforehand. I am trying to delineate sinkholes and want to burn in the streams to eliminate many of the false sinks caused by road cuts. The tool seems to run with no issues but nothing is produced and it runs way too fast. I looked at the log and it says the following:

Reading streams and roads data...
Reading DEM raster...
thread 'main' panicked at 'called Option::unwrap() on a None value', whitebox-raster\src\lib.rs:1361:69
note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace
Succeeded at Thursday, March 28, 2024 2:11:45 PM (Elapsed Time: 0.14 seconds)

Any idea what the problem is? I can't find anything in the issues or manual?

I upgraded to the 2.1 release and now when I go to use or connect to the toolbox it always shows a red exclamation point by the toolbox. I've tried deleting everything and re-extracting it all again to the same folder but the exclamation point still shows up.

I tested "Lidar Tile Footprint" in WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS(v1.1.0) using ArcGIS Pro 2.4, but I got an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 21613, in execute
TypeError: lidar_tile_footprint() got multiple values for argument 'output'

One user reported having a "No response" issue opening the toolbox in ArcGIS 10.5. I just tested it myself and found that it indeed takes a while (~ 10 mins) to first open it in ArcGIS 10.5. Note that the toolbox (WhiteboxTool.pyt) contains over 25,000 lines of Python code. Therefore, it could take some time to load for the first time. Please be patient.

I don't have a solution for it as this moment. I would recommend upgrading to ArcGIS 10.6 (Python 2.7) or ArcGIS Pro (Python 3.6). The toolbox has been tested to work well on ArcGIS 10.6 and ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS 10.5

ArcGIS 10.6

ArcGIS Pro

Tried to input two LAS files to join them and assigned the output with the .LAS extension. However, the tool fails immediately after execution with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 20731, in execute
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy_init_.py", line 1255, in Describe
return gp.describe(value, data_type)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing_base.py", line 383, in describe
self._gp.Describe(*gp_fixargs(args, True)))
OSError: "'C:MY PATH TO LIDAR FILE\USGS_LPC_PR_PRVI_D_2018_19QGA40004500.las'" does not exist
Failed to execute (LidarJoin).

The LiDAR files DO exist on the specified paths.

PS. Thanks to everyone working on this project!

Hi, I've been trying to run some of the hydrology tools in ArcGis Pro. While the models appear to be running to completion, they fail to save an output file to the disk which is a bit odd. Any idea why this happening?

Whilst promoting your excellent tool on GIS Stack Exchange I thought this tool could do with a set of useful enhancements. Not being a rust developer its outside my skillset so I thought I would just say what I'm thinking.

1. It would useful if this tool created and populated the output with an X and Y field for the points it extracted.
2. The PARENT_ID field is offset by 1 to the FID it was generated from, I think this needs to be corrected as it makes joining data problematic.
3. It would be good to have a sequence field count the vertex position in the polygon ring, which resets with every PARENT_ID.
4. Finally this is a personal preference but to me a node is a terminal vertex in a polyline. The points that make up a line or polygon are vertices, you even refer to them as vertices in your help file, so may be the tool should be renamed to extract vertices?

Just some ideas to keep you on your toes! :)

Hi guys !
Congratulations on this great release.
Below the error, I get when trying to run geomorphons in ArcGIS pro 3.0.0

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 13623, in execute
TypeError: geomorphons() got an unexpected keyword argument 'tdist'

Failed to execute (Geomorphons).

PS: it works perfectly when I run it using wtb runner.

Best
regards
Rengifo Ortega

So I was about to suggest there were errors in the following tools:

• VECTOR LINE TO RASTER
• VECTOR POINT TO RASTER

But lucky for me I tested my input data. Turned out the problem was that my input data was a file geodatabase featureclass. Once I exported the layer to shapefile format the tools ran without error.

Now I went and had a look at the WBT manual and it does indeed say that it only accepts shapefiles but I think the tool needs to trap this as the error message returned gives no indication as to what the problem was to the user. This can be easily rectified by inserting the following code into the updateMessges() section of each tool that takes a vector layer as input. Here is the code

    def updateMessages(self, parameters):
        # Assumes that parameter 0 is always the vector input
        if parameters[0].altered:
            layer = parameters[0].value
            desc = arcpy.Describe(layer)
            if desc.FeatureClass.dataType != "ShapeFile":
                parameters[0].setErrorMessage("This tool expects the layer to be a Shapefile")
            else:
                parameters[0].clearMessage()
        return

Currently the tools are doing little or no input validation and this simple addition will make the user experience certainly less frustrating.

I followed the instructions and it doesn't work in ArcMap 10.8. I'm getting a red X over the toolkit icon.
In QGIS and ArcGIS Pro it works!

Just been testing the vector point to raster tool, I assume this is an issue in all tools that generate a raster as an output. My gut feeling this is an issue with WBT ( @jblindsay ) rather than the python toolbox, but could be wrong?

My input dataset is a point dataset with a British_National_Grid coordinate system, the resulting TIF raster has no coordinate system as shown below:

I can run the define projection tool to set it to British_National_Grid.

I notice that if I feed this raster (with a coordinate system set) straight into a raster to vector polygon tool the output shapefile retains the coordinate system.

The output should not be loosing the coordinate system.

I see two options:

1. If it is a bug in WBT then fix it.
2. If it is a limitation in WBT and rasters drop coordinate systems for what ever reason, then why not call the define projection tool within the execute() part of the function as a last step to ensure output has a valid coordinate system. Users should not be required to run the define projection tool when the input had a coordinate system.

Thank you for all your work on this. I've been trying to run the openness tool, but I keep running into the same error where it says whitebox_tools.exe doesn't contain a tool called "Openness" (exact message 'Unrecognized tool name Openness.'). Other tools that I've tried do seem to work.

When I run the vector Polygon to Raster tool as shown below it crashes with the error:

PolygonsToRaster National_Nature_Reserves_England nnr_name C:\Scratch\test.tif true 10 #
Start Time: Tue Feb 25 23:37:33 2020
Running script VectorPolygonsToRaster...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2671, in execute
File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.6\arcpy\arcpy_init_.py", line 1260, in Describe
return gp.describe(value, data_type)
File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.6\arcpy\arcpy\geoprocessing_base.py", line 376, in describe
self._gp.Describe(*gp_fixargs(args, True)))
AttributeError: Object: Error in parsing arguments for Describe

Failed to execute (VectorPolygonsToRaster).
Failed at Tue Feb 25 23:37:33 2020 (Elapsed Time: 0.03 seconds)

On looking at the code at line 2671 the line:

desc = arcpy.Describe(base)

Implies that the parameter base is not actually an optional parameter, code needs modifying to resolve this, I am unsure how you are passing in "nothing" into the WBT when base is nothing?

wbt.vector_polygons_to_raster(i=i, field=field, output=output, nodata=nodata, cell_size=cell_size, base=base)

Tested out in ArcGIS Pro . Watershed file is said to be optional. The tool won´t run without it

I'm running WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS within ArcGIS 10.7 with no issues. However, when trying to run the Diff. from mean elevation using the testdata DEM.tif get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 9663, in execute
TypeError: diff_from_mean_elev() got an unexpected keyword argument 'i'

Failed to execute (DiffFromMeanElev).
Failed at Mon Jul 27 13:39:50 2020 (Elapsed Time: 0.22 seconds

Hello, thanks for the great work.

I used the random forest classifier in WBT. Everything works fine and no error occurred. However, the output raster did not generate. I have tried to change the folder and output names, but nothing helps. Any ideas of what could cause this problem? My ArcGIS Pro's version is 3.0.

Cheers,
Hang

There are many tools in the Math and Stats Tool toolset that have parameters that take a raster OR a constant. If try to run any of these tools they all fail as you cannot proceed as they reject a constant value.

Take the Divide tool as example you cannot divide your test data DEM.tif by a number.

For these tools expanding the allowable list of data types resolves the issue, I tried the following:

datatype=["GPRasterLayer","Long","Double"]

This is a useful tool that generates a URL for the source code but I would like to suggest it takes it one step further and actually take you to the web page. Why else would you use this tool if not for reviewing the code?

To make my suggestion work you would need to include the following import at the top of the file:

import webbrowser

Then replace the following code in the execute() function for the ViewCode class with the following:

    def execute(self, parameters, messages):
        """The source code of the tool."""
        param0 = parameters[0].valueAsText
        tool_name = param0.replace(" ", "").strip()        
        messages.addMessage("Opening default browser...")
        webbrowser.get('windows-default').open(wbt.view_code(tool_name))
        messages.addMessage(wbt.view_code(tool_name))
        return

A small tweak that would make this tool more helpful.

Hi, I have a WTB toolbox download from over a year ago (has fewer tools than the new download, like 'LidarContour') that works okay on my personal computer. However, I just downloaded a fresh toolbox to my Amazon EC2 ArcGIS Server instance, and tried to utilize the 'LidarContour' and 'LasToShapefile' in both ArcMap and Pro, and both instantaneously fail and show the same errors in the GP results 'messages' window. Tool inputs and error messages are show below. Something with an unexpected keyword argument.

LiDAR Data: .LAS file downloaded from USGS 3DEP.

Error Messages/ Tool Inputs

WhiteboxTools now uses python 3.
An example of this is the use of Python 3's f-Strings format at line 218 in whitebox_tools.py
Readme.MD should be updated to reflect this toolbox now only supports ArcGIS Pro.

Instalado WTB en ARCGIS PRO como se indica https://github.com/giswqs/WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS#installation, con ello se apertura WTB en ARCGIS PRO visualizando las herramientas como tal pero al ejecutar se muestra un error:

solicito un apoyo u orientación en el debido manejo de la caja de herramientas WTB en ARCGIS PRO.

I wonder why can't I import the toolbox =(

There is a bug in the Merge Vectors tool in the Data Tools toolset.

Example input (both polygon layers):

Result:

Executing: MergeVectors single2;single C:\Scratch\merge.shp
Start Time: Wed Mar 4 10:27:46 2020
Running script MergeVectors...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1925, in execute
TypeError: merge_vectors() got an unexpected keyword argument 'i'

Failed to execute (MergeVectors).
Failed at Wed Mar 4 10:27:46 2020 (Elapsed Time: 0.23 seconds)

Hello.. I was initially excited to see an ArcGIS option available and read the readme file. I am running ArcGIS 10.4 but there was no indication of version this was developed for, so I gave it a try. It behaved painstakingly slow when initially loaded, similar to the 10.5 issue, but also creates an XML file for EVERY WBT command in the WBT folder where the toolbox is stored. One reason for the slow load time.. but it takes forever starting ArcMap when this tool is loaded, and the functions run but do nothing. I understand it is likely not compatible.. but my recommendation to you is to save people the heartache and just state Up Front - like perhaps in the readme file - what version ArcGIS this should be run in (e.g. 10.6 or above!). Because you can't assume everyone out there is running the latest and greatest. Thank you. JG