topic buffer in existing feature class in ArcGIS Pro Questions

buffer in existing feature class

CharlesFinley — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:37:58 GMT

I attended the 2015 User Conference, and I heard the gospel, as spoken by Jack and Co. - ArcPro is ON, and it is REAL!!

Soooo... I'm really trying to use ArcGIS Pro, and migrate my workflows to this software.

As a GIS support person for a Lands and permitting department, the thing I map the most is road and utility easements; simply created by buffering an existing line feature to create a polygon feature within an existing feature class. Simply put: select a line feature, click the buffer tool, choose your template, define your distance, hit OK. You have a new polygon feature in your edit layer.

I have searched the edit tools in Pro, and the help as well, and all I have found is the Buffer Geoprocessing Tool, which creates a new feature class.

Is this tool available as an edit function? If not, when will it be available? This is a crucial editing functionality that needs to be a part of the ArcGIS Pro editing toolset.

Thank you, and if I have overlooked this functionality in ArcGIS Pro, please make me aware of it, along with all the stonewalling I deserve!

Re: buffer in existing feature class

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:52:03 GMT

perhaps this area of the help files

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/editing/introduction-to-feature-templates.htm

and this link has some reference to buffering

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/editing/feature-builder-reference.htm

Re: buffer in existing feature class

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:58:12 GMT

Have you looked at the templates yet in Pro? (I'm assuming the snapshots above are from Desktop).

I haven't played around with Pro templates enough, but to build on the links Dan passed on

Buffer (Polyline)—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS for Desktop is for lines. To me it looks like this is done within an edit session and not as a GP tool.

Re: buffer in existing feature class

CharlesFinley — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:01:36 GMT

I have not yet worked with feature templates in Pro. I will take a look at these. Thanks for the replies!