Split Tool Issue in Editing ArcGIS PRo

Question

In the past it seemed splitting a polyline segment while clicking on the line took a very long time.  That at least seems to have been fixed and is now very fast which is great.

ISSUE 1

I'm having is an inconsistency of using the split tool by using the dashed construction line rather than just clicking on the polyline itself in case I wanted to split a polyline in more than one segment or if I wanted to split 2 polylines at different spots at the same time.

Using this split construction dashed line it seems to sporadically work.  Sometimes doing exactly what I want, other times, just splitting the polyline in one of the 2 or more places I select or sometimes not splitting at all and still saying it was successful.

I've tried using both the "Allow splitting without a selection" and with it and no difference.

ISSUE 2

Another issue is if I two polyline segments that meet at an intersection and only one polyline needs to be split (for example one is a road that is named something and the other is a road that has different names on either side of the intersection) that I can't seem to select the correct line to split.  Pro just seems to randomly select one of the polylines and splits that.  Again, I've tried using the "Allow splitting without a selection" on and off and it still doesn't matter.  How can I split only one polyline I want and not the other at an intersection?

Images

Issue1a.jpg - Example of a single polyline where I want a single split to be

Issue1b.jpg - Example of a single polyline where I want it to be split in 2 spots

Issue1a.jpg - Example of 2 polylines and I want to split only A and not B, however when hovering over the

intersection, it shows Line B will be split and not A.

Issue1b.jpg

Issue1a.jpg

issue2.jpg

CurtisBradley · Answer

I just had this issue and found this thread. I solved the "Split failed. Geometry must intersect polylines and polygons in two or more places" by re-projecting my feature class and the coordinate system of my map from NAD83 into Web Mercator and it works now.  I think it might be a projection thing.

VanessaSimps · Answer

Were you ever able to resolve this? We keep having a similar issue with our polygons where the split tool works and then all the sudden we get the "Split failed. Geometry must intersect polylines and polygons in two or more places. Unable to obtain primary key value for origin object" error.

We can still edit vertices and do our work, but its a lot easier to use the split tool so that attributes are maintained!

thanks in advance,

Vanessa

This is extremely frustrating!

PeteJordan · Answer

Ok turned on the intersection snapping which I had off and then tried it and it only selects the top one if I select the intersection as it normally does.  But with your suggestion using the splitting line and the connecting that to the intersection, that seems to now split the other line.  So testing it a few times seems to be consistent and that very well may be the solution for my Issue 2, I'll have to keep trying it to see if it continues to act the same, but for now it seems to work.  Thanks Scott.

UPDATE

And it suddenly now stopped working as it was.  This may be part of the same issue as my Issue 1 where it seems to work as intended and then for some reason just stops working and then randomly works later on.

Did the same test a few times the same way and now it just won't do it.  So not sure why, but maybe it will be fixed in 2.5.

Now interesting enough, when these splits stop working, if I just do a normal single split anywhere on the line, that Splitting Line then works again at least for the intersections.  So that Splitting Line might be getting hung up somewhere in the background or something and that's why it doesn't work all of a sudden, but then resets when just a normal split without it is executed?

Thanks for trying though Scott...

Pete