Let me use the Divide tool's Distance method on multiple lines!

jcarlson — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:45:02 GMT

The Divide tool is the bread and butter of my cadastral workflows. Especially in a situation like this: I have a number of "floating" townhome clusters. Each group of lots has an outer boundary, and though the bearings change, their distances are all identical.

In the next step of drawing this subdivision, I have to divide each of the 110' lines into segments.

Setting up the Divide tool, it does exactly what I want:

The problem, for me, is that even though I've got dozens of lines all being split to the same distances, as soon as I select more than one line, I get a notice:

I can understand warning me that what I'm about to do may result in unintended results, but to take away the option of clicking "divide"? That seems an arbitrary limitation.

Consider, if I instead used the "percentage" tool. The first segment of each of these lines is 25', or 22.73%.

No problems. And yes, I could just calculate the percentage and do it this way, but where the segments are not all the same distance, I'm still having to re-select my multiple lines and use the divide tool again. Plus the resulting lines have a COGO type of Computed, but these are Entered values, so I'd have to go back and adjust the attributes.

Here's what irks me. If I check the box to distribute the remaining length, then my division is still just a percentage, but I'm not having to calculate the percentage myself.

If that box is checked, I don't see why the tool couldn't run against multiple lines at once. I know what I'm doing, so give me the option to turn off this guardrail. What could have been a single operation is currently an unnecessarily inflated task.

Re: Let me use the Divide tool's Distance method on multiple lines! - Status changed to: In Product Plan

JenniferCadkin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:47:36 GMT

Re: Let me use the Divide tool's Distance method on multiple lines! - Status changed to: Implemented

JenniferCadkin — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:53:14 GMT

With ArcGIS Pro 3.7, the Divide tool's Distance method allows one or many selected lines as input.

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Let me use the Divide tool's Distance method on multiple lines!

Re: Let me use the Divide tool's Distance method on multiple lines! - Status changed to: In Product Plan

Re: Let me use the Divide tool's Distance method on multiple lines! - Status changed to: Implemented