[GIS] Getting 000210 Error trying to wirte output to in_memory workspace in ModelBuilder

Question

My model gives this error message when it tries to do the Clip function

Here is the first half of the model showing the parameters used in the clip function

I have successfully run this model when the clip function output was writing to disk but when I changed it to in_memory it stopped working. Any suggestions? I really don't want to write all 3000 files to my hard drive.

Answer 1

in_memory workspace is styled as a gdb so it should work if you delete the ".shp"

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//002w0000005s000000

"A table, feature class, or a raster written to the in-memory workspace will have the source location of GPInMemoryWorkspace, as illustrated below."