idea "Scale Features" Geoprocessing Tool in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

"Scale Features" Geoprocessing Tool

bdewitt_olsson — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:46:36 GMT

Based on the amount of attention on this discussion board: https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/automatically-resizing-polygons/m-p/1097499 and this Stack Exchange post which it references: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/169694/is-there-arcpy-tool-for-polygon-resizing-like-scale-tool-of-advanced-editing-too it seems there is significant demand for a "Scale Features" geoprocessing tool in the Editing Toolbox, a need I have encountered in a new workflow of mine.

This tool would provide the same function as the Scale editing tool with a scale factor, but would allow this function to be performed on multiple features as once, with each feature having a unique anchor point. The anchor points would default to the centroid of their respective features, with the option to offset them by a set distance and direction. This would be different than using the Scale editing tool with multiple features selected, as in that case all features selected reference the same anchor point.

Currently, the only way I know of to scale multiple features in this way are to either scale them all one at a time using the Scale editing tool, or to use the Python code shared in the above Stack Exchange post. I think this would be a natural addition to ArcGIS Pro's default geoprocessing tool selection.

Re: "Scale Features" Geoprocessing Tool

sebastianbrauer — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:41:22 GMT

Why not make the same with rotate as well?

Re: "Scale Features" Geoprocessing Tool

JamesSerendip1 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:10:23 GMT

I second this. Such a tool would be helpful for me at the moment.

Re: "Scale Features" Geoprocessing Tool

JadenBender — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:43:12 GMT

I would also like to see this tool. I often have to work with data from CAD that has a ground coordinate factor. This is not strictly COGO data nor is it strictly on a coordinate system. Rather it is a know grid coordinate system with a scale factor applied. Thus ignoring the whole false easting factor. With a scale tool I could scale data about 0,0 to reset back to grid. Or set my grid linework to ground for CAD.