topic Re: Making a square using a point? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Making a square using a point?

hm_stella — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:31:05 GMT

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone knows how to make a square polygon using one point as a centroid.

I know that the tool, graphic buffer would work as I wanted. But, is there any other tool?

Thanks all

Re: Making a square using a point?

DanPatterson — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:15:34 GMT

Fishnet with one row and column and a specified cell size

Create Fishnet (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

or some incarnation of Xander Bakker‌ 's

https://community.esri.com/thread/119885?commentID=449371#comment-449371

Re: Making a square using a point?

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:22:00 GMT

You could also use a two-step process, Buffer followed by Minimum Bounding Geometry.

Re: Making a square using a point?

Scott_Harris — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:53:16 GMT

Hyun-min Joo‌

FYI In an upcoming release, you'll be able to use a new polygon tool called the Regular Polygon tool. The tool will allow you to set the number of sides for a polygon that you will create, preview of the functionality:

Here I set the number of sides to 4 to make a square. I can create the square centered on the point by snapping to it and dragging outward. If I had another feature nearby, I could also snap the corner of the polygon to it.

-Scott

Re: Making a square using a point?

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:23:58 GMT

Scott Harris‌, will their be a corresponding geoprocessing tool, or is this just GUI?

Re: Making a square using a point?

Scott_Harris — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:36:41 GMT

It will be found on the Create Features pane for polygon and line feature templates. Not a GP tool.