Polylines from Points

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Purpose

Input features:

Output features:

This tool allows converting points from the point layer to one or multiple polylines.

Description

Based on the input set of points, the tool creates one or more polylines of the smallest length without self-intersections. Resulting polylines can be saved in a new shapefile or as a geodatabase feature class.

Options

The following options are available:

• Use selected features

Allows the user to process only selected features

• Group by field

Allows the user to create several polylines by selecting the field by which the input objects will be grouped

• Sort by field

Allows the user to apply the order of input points when creating a polyline (polylines)

This option can be used if the order of the source features is known and needs to be taken into account. By default, no field is selected. The order can be specified, for example, by the OID field (this will set the order in which the points were digitized), or by other attribute field.

The field for ordering is not selected:

Sort by OID field:

• Tolerance

Allows the user to set the minimum distance within which the coordinates of the points are considered distinguishable

• Close line

Allows the user to create closed polylines

Usage

• Select the "Polylines from Points" tool from the Conversion tools of XTools Pro menu.

• Select the input dataset containing points that you wish to convert to polylines using Map Content, Catalog, History or Favorites.

• Specify the name and location of the output feature class using Catalog, Default Path, Document locations, Home GDB, History or Favorites. The output data can be saved in a shapefile or in a geodatabase.

• Specify the fields by which the grouping and ordering will be performed if required. Also, if required, specify the tolerance and select the “close line” option to get a closed polyline.

• Press Run to convert points to polylines.

Note

Multipoint features cannot be used as input data.