topic calculating polyline length in a polygon in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/calculating-polyline-length-in-a-polygon/m-p/497506#M13366 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>using arcgis 9.3.1, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would like to calculate polyline length within polygons (they are overlapping) </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>with smaller file size the intersect command and tabular analysis did the trick. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>the current polygon file I have has ~50,000 records, which will create too large of a file size. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am not versed in any language (VBA, python); so I'll consider any approach you can suggest and try to make it work.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:47:35 GMT davidwelch 2011-02-22T19:47:35Z calculating polyline length in a polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/calculating-polyline-length-in-a-polygon/m-p/497506#M13366 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>using arcgis 9.3.1, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would like to calculate polyline length within polygons (they are overlapping) </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>with smaller file size the intersect command and tabular analysis did the trick. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>the current polygon file I have has ~50,000 records, which will create too large of a file size. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am not versed in any language (VBA, python); so I'll consider any approach you can suggest and try to make it work.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:47:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/calculating-polyline-length-in-a-polygon/m-p/497506#M13366 davidwelch 2011-02-22T19:47:35Z Re: calculating polyline length in a polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/calculating-polyline-length-in-a-polygon/m-p/497507#M13367 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It sounds like you may want to try using the Clip tool to clip out everything in the polyline feature class that is not within a polygon.&nbsp; Then with the new clipped feature you could use "Calculate Geometry" by right clicking on a column in the attribute table and choose Length as the property to calculate.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:00:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/calculating-polyline-length-in-a-polygon/m-p/497507#M13367 WoodrowFields 2011-02-23T19:00:59Z