A tool or program that validates shapefiles

Question

I am creating a large volume of new shapefiles. Sometimes they have intersections, lines hanging off polygons, unclosed polygons, etc.

Is there a way to automatically verify that they don't have issues like the ones mentioned above? A series of tools you can use in ArcMap? Or a program you can run the shapefiles through?

Validating manually by looking closely at every vertex can be maddening.

Ian

jameshickey · Answer

You could create model in model builder that checks the geometry,

CheckGeometry_management (in_features, out_table)

then use arcpy to cycle through a folder full of these items and check each one.

Here is a link to the check geometry tool help page. Check Geometry—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Alternatively you could just run Check Geometry as batch in arcpro or arc desktop.