topic Re: Split line by attribute field in Data Management Questions

Split line by attribute field

ShaunLam — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:39:55 GMT

Hi,
I currently have a single line that I want split at certain distances along it. The distances are all different and in a separate point shapefile. Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Shaun.

Re: Split line by attribute field

JonathanQuinn — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:06:13 GMT

What version and license level are you using? If you have ArcInfo, you can use Split Line at Points.

Re: Split line by attribute field

JohnSobetzer — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:09:00 GMT

If the points are at the locations you want to split the line and you have ArcInfo/Advanced you might look at the split line at point tool n Data Management Tools - Features.

There is an Arcscript to do this at http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14190

Another Arcscript that uses attributes is at http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14127 and there is a more recent version in the Net resources although I don't have the link for it right now. To use this you might use a join to get the point attributes into the line layer.

Also see http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/20402/how-to-divide-a-single-polyline-feature-into-multiple-features-based-on-points-l. Also see the thread in this same forum: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/51332-Dividing-Splitting-Lines

Re: Split line by attribute field

ShaunLam — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:19:13 GMT

Thanks for your replies, Sorry if I was unclear, the point shapefile that I had were not the locations that I wanted the line split at. To do what I needed to do I treated the line like a route, created a route then used the distance locations in the point file to split it by the locations I needed.