Polygons to Polylines

Purpose

This tool converts selected polygons to single part polylines and stores them in a new shapefile or geodatabase feature class.

Description

The tool is aimed to the conversion of polygon features to single part polylines. If no polygons are currently selected, all polygons in the layer will be processed. Source polygons can be single or multipart features. The output polyline attribute table will consist of either the same fields as one of the input polygons, or will contain only IDs of the left-side and right-side polygons depending on the selected option.

Usage

1. Select the "Polygons to Polylines" tool from the XTools Pro ribbon.

2. Select input polygons that you wish to convert to polylines.

3. Specify the name and location of the output feature class.  

4. Select how adjacent polyilnes should be split.

5. Specify ID field to store input features IDs.

6. Press Run to convert polygons to polylines.

There are three options available for splitting adjacent polylines that may result from the adjacent polygons:

• Don't split adjacent polylines:
  - polylines will be left as is.

• Create one polyline transferring left and right IDs:
  - IDs of the left-side and right-side polygons will be transferred to the output feature class table.

• Creating two adjacent polylines duplicating attributes:
  - attributes will be duplicated in the output feature class.