Feature to Point questions

Question

Please see attachment.
1) Did you guys change/improve the results when running feature to point? See comparison between 9.3(9.3.1) and 10.
2) I came across bug NIM047493: Requesting that points created by "Feature to Point" using the Inside option be created as non-centroids only if the centroid does not fall inside the polygon. This doesn't seem fixed in 10 Pre release (See circled items on attached image). Will we see the fix in 10 final?

Thanks.

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RichardFairhurst · Answer

Does anyone know how I can create feature to point  in Arcgis 10.2 without extention?
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It does not require an extension, it requires that you have purchased an Advanced license.  Without the correct license level you can't use that tool.

About the best you can do within ArcMap without that license level is calculate the centroid XY coordinates of your features, export the data as a table, and then use the Make XY Event Layer to create a point layer from the coordinates.  This method won't achieve the same results as the Features to Points tool, but it may get you close enough to what you need.

Aysanabdollahzadeh · Answer

Does anyone know how I can create feature to point  in Arcgis 10.2 without extention?
Thanks

ArcGISUser · Answer

Hi Dan,

Thank you for being receptive to my ideas. 😄  Yes, I will go ahead and file an enhancement request.

Thank you again for all of your help and support!