shapefile - Combining several layers in ArcGIS Desktop using Intersect gives WARNING 000117: Warning empty output generated?

I'm using ArcGIS 10.3

I have the following 4 layers (all are polygons)

You can find these layers in this link

DATA

1. 
   

   Sites: 5 subcatchments (Site1 to site5) and site 5 combine all subcatchments upstream

   
   


2. 
   

   Nloss: nitrogen loss for each polygon

   
   


3. 
   

   Geology: Rock types

   
   



4. 
   

   Soils: Soil types

   
   

What I want?

I want to create a polygon shapefile. In this layer, each polygon will have ALL the attributes from all the 4 layers.

I used intersect to do so. I think union could be used as well to do the same.

I named the resulting shapefile intersect_4_layers.shp. The result of this intersection could be found in this link.

Adding slope

I have slope shapefile that has two categories (0 and 1).

• zero: if slope is less than or equal 10


• 
  

  1: if slope is more than 10

  
  

  

  
  

I wanted to add slope information to the shapefile resulting from intersecting the 4 layers above (Sites/Soils/Nloss/Rocks) named "intersect_4_layers.shp".

I tried the following:

1- to intersect slope.shp with intersect_4_layers.shp

2- to intersect all 5 layers (Sites, Nloss, Geology, Soils and Slope)

Both trials failed and resulted in this warning

WARNING 000117: Warning empty output generated

QUESTION

Why intersection worked the 1st time (intersecting 4 layers) and didn't work while trying to intersect them with the slope?

Any suggestions how to get all the attributes of the 5 layers into one shapefile?

Answer

I could reproduce your issue with ArcGIS 10.4.1. As a workaround, you can save the output of the Intersect tool as a feature class in a file geodatabase, then the tool will work fine.