Split Polylines

Purpose

The tool is aimed to advanced splitting of polyline features.

Description

The tool provides ArcGIS Pro users with capabilities to split polyline features into separate segments in various customizable ways.

Usage

1. Select the "Split Polylines" tool from the XTools Pro ribbon.

2. Select input polylines that you wish to split.

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

4. Select method for splitting input polyline features.

5. Specify ID field to store input features IDs.

6. Press Run to split polylines.

 

Following split methods are available :

• At all vertices

input polylines will be split at all vertices, the number of output polylines depends on how many vertices exist in the input polylines. Note, in some cases the vertices density can be high enough so that applying this method will result in great many of short polylines.

• Into specified segments

input polylines will be split into segments of the specified length (except the last segment), at that splitting always starts from the start (from) node of the input polylines.

• Into equal segments

input polylines will be split into given number of equal segments.

• At the points of change of any direction

input polylines will be split at the points of change of any direction, including Z.

• At the points of change of slope

input polylines will be split at the points of change of the direction of the slope (option relates and can be applied to 3D polylines).

• By another layer

input polylines will be split at the intersections with another specified polygon, polyline or point layer (or by selected features of another layer).

Note:

When splitting by point layer it is highly recommended to specify and use tolerance, otherwise make sure that points are located exactly on the polylines.