Modifying the spatial domain

For many of your data projects, you won't need to modify the default spatial domain values provided by ArcCatalog. There are times, however, when you'll need to modify the spatial extent, the precision, or both. For example, when working with an enterprise geodatabase, you may want to modify the spatial domain to fine-tune database performance.

You will also need to modify the spatial domain values when they are merely placeholder values. As you've learned, ArcCatalog provides placeholder values when you create a new feature class or feature dataset without importing the spatial reference from another dataset.

You can only modify the values for the spatial domain when you create a standalone feature class or feature dataset, not after.