How to make a point cloud of a 2D polygon?

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06-18-2018 09:21 AM
JesseSmith5
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Essentially, I am trying to overfit a grid of evenly-distributed points over a polygon. Then I then want to clip out the points that fall outside of said polygon. The goal here is to then export a table of the polygon's X/Y coordinates, so it can be read as a point cloud in other software.

One problem that I'm anticipating is that the coordinates probably need to be converted from long/lat or UTM to just a simple cartesian plane system with an origin (0,0).  But for now, I'm mostly concerned with just creating the point grid.

I attached a schematic to help explain what I'm going for here.

How can I go about doing this!?

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DanPatterson_Retired
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Point Tools for Prohttps://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f96ede37dcd04c2e96dc903a4ce26244 use the 'mesh points' option and specify your projected coordinate system

Alternately, make a Fishnet, then convert Feature To Points and remove duplicates... if you have the license

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