topic clip line segments in ArcGIS Pro Questions

clip line segments

temprobertcottreau131313 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:20:23 GMT

I have 3 line features A, B, C and would like to find where line feature C is the same as line feature A and where line feature C is the same as line feature B.

There are instances where line feature C has portions of both A and B.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks to all.

Re: clip line segments

DanPatterson — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:00:43 GMT

three separate featureclasses? or 3 features within the same featureclass?

Re: clip line segments

andeb31 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:03:19 GMT

Take a look at the Intersect geoprocessing tool. This should get you what you need https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/analysis/pairwise-intersect.htm

Re: clip line segments

temprobertcottreau131313 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:45:48 GMT

3 separate feature classes.

none of the pairwise tools is the solution, at least as I've tried them.

Re: clip line segments

temprobertcottreau131313 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:51:09 GMT

Pairwise Intersect only returns a small number of the sites.

I'm not sure if what I want is possible. Lines don't seem to want to clip lines based on lines.

Re: clip line segments

JamesPoeschel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:54:14 GMT

Is it possible that your overlapping lines do not overlap exactly? Could you create a small buffer and then run the intersect tool with the buffer? I think that's what I usually do when I need to clip lines with lines.

Alternatively.. I had a similar task once and just asked Claude ai to write me an arcpy python tool and it worked