Joined parcel feature class to non-spatial table, how do I create polygon features?

Question

Hello.  I am working with a non-spatial table of water meters.  I have joined a polygon parcel feature class to the table, so that each meter record has a parcel number.  The parcel spatial fields, length and area, are available as part of the join in the non-spatial data.  How do I, or can I, create a polygon feature class from this table?  I am trying to maintain multiple meter records all having the same parcel number.  In other words, if a property has 20 meters (apartments), there will be 20 identical parcel polygons stacked up.  Is this even possible to do?  Or should I use relate instead of join?  Joins and relates confuse me.

danretired · Accepted Answer

reverse the join featureclasses, you can't make a non-spatial table spatial, but you can use the spatial featureclass with the join table.  joins and relates, one-to-on, or many to one.  It looks like you want to associate many meters with one polygon, it will work only one way.

Introduction to joins and relates—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

starting in that link and proceeding down the table of contents to the left of it will hopefully clarify your situation