ArcGIS Pro Basic

ArcGIS Pro is the latest professional desktop GIS application from Esri. With ArcGIS Pro, you can explore, visualize, and analyze data; create 2D maps and 3D scenes; and share your work to your  ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise portal.

Projects:-

In ArcGIS Pro, a body of related work—consisting of maps, scenes, layouts, data, tables, tools, and connections to other resources—is typically organized in a project. By default, a project is stored in its own system folder. Project files have the extension .aprx. A project also has its own geodatabase (a file with the extension .gdb) and its own toolbox (a file with the extension .tbx).

When we start ArcGIS Pro, we can create a project from one of the four system templates. Each template creates a project file that starts the application in a different state. For example, a project created from the Map template starts with a map view containing a basemap layer. 

ArcGIS Pro provides a few blank project templates to help you get started.

• To build a 2D map, select the Map template.
• To create a 3D global scene, select the Global Scene template.
• To start with a 3D local scene, select the Local Scene template.
• To start with the catalog view, select the Catalog template. If data management is your primary focus, consider pinning this project to the start page or opening it automatically when you start ArcGIS Pro.

We can also start without a template. This allows you to work in ArcGIS Pro without saving a project file.

There are various ways to open your saved projects. Any project you have used recently is accessible from the start page. You can browse to other saved projects to open them. You can also pin a project to the start page to make sure it is always readily available.

ArcGIS Pro user interface

The main parts of the ArcGIS Pro interface are the ribbon, views, and panes. 

Ribbon

ArcGIS Pro uses a horizontal ribbon at the top of the application window to display and organize functionality into a series of tabs. Some of these tabs (core tabs) are always present. Others (contextual tabs) appear when the application is in a particular state. For example, a set of contextual Feature Layer tabs appears when a feature layer is selected in the Contents pane.

Views

Views are windows for working with maps, scenes, tables, layouts, charts, reports, and other presentations of data. A project may have many views, which can be opened and closed as needed. Several views can be open at the same time, but only one is active.

Panes

A pane is a dockable window that displays the contents of a view (the Contents pane), the contents of a project or portal (the Catalog pane), or commands and settings related to an area of functionality, such as the Symbology and Geoprocessing panes.

Settings page

On the Settings page, you can perform basic file operations and configure the application. The Settings page can be accessed in two ways:

• From an open project, click the Project tab on the ribbon.
• From the ArcGIS Pro start page, click Settings  in the lower left corner.

Click the tabs on the left side of the page to access the settings you want to change.