topic Irregular shaped buffer. in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470229#M26820 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need to buffer a point feature to an irregular shape. The buffer needs to be 20m x 80m x 80m x 100m from a center point.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 May 2017 21:27:22 GMT iankirschner 2017-05-15T21:27:22Z Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470229#M26820 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need to buffer a point feature to an irregular shape. The buffer needs to be 20m x 80m x 80m x 100m from a center point.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 May 2017 21:27:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470229#M26820 iankirschner 2017-05-15T21:27:22Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470230#M26821 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The easiest way to do this is in arcpy using the Geometry object. You can create a feature class, create a bunch of geometries, and copy them into the feature class using Copy Features.</P><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/get-started/using-geometry-objects-with-geoprocessing-tools.htm" title="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/get-started/using-geometry-objects-with-geoprocessing-tools.htm">Using geometry objects with geoprocessing tools—ArcPy Get Started | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 15 May 2017 22:00:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470230#M26821 curtvprice 2017-05-15T22:00:02Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470231#M26822 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I agree that&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/community/developers/gis-developers/python">https://community.esri.com/community/developers/gis-developers/python</A>&nbsp;would probably be your best bet here. Are there any rules about the orientation of this irregular shape?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 May 2017 15:23:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470231#M26822 BlakeTerhune 2017-05-16T15:23:56Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470232#M26823 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>also, where is the 'centre-ish' feature with respect to the dimensions and as Blake indicated, its orientation?</P><P>Just thought it might be easier to produce the shape, place it about a 'central' point, then translate and rotate the resultant into its final position.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 May 2017 15:33:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470232#M26823 DanPatterson_Retired 2017-05-16T15:33:30Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470233#M26824 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dan, I like this idea - create the buffer about 0,0 and then write and use a little function to copy the template buffer poly and shift/rotate the xys into place for each point.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>If you need code to rotate XYs there is a function of mine&nbsp;<A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.esri.com/thread/48226#comment-249603" target="_blank">in this thread.</A>&nbsp;The code also has code to use the function to rotate a polygon. Not as easy as one would hope. <A href="https://community.esri.com/people/bixb0012" target="_blank">bixb0012</A>&nbsp;is on to something with his idea&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/ideas/10963" target="_blank">https://community.esri.com/ideas/10963</A>!</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:34:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470233#M26824 curtvprice 2021-06-22T08:34:59Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470234#M26825 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Please add a graphic describing your goal.&nbsp; If it looks like this <A href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/188139/buffering-point-with-different-distance-toward-n-e-s-w-using-arcgis-for-deskt">GIS StackExchange post</A>, then there's already&nbsp; an answer.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 May 2017 16:42:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470234#M26825 VinceAngelo 2017-05-16T16:42:20Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470235#M26826 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Vince mentioned ellipses over there....&nbsp;<A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/table-to-ellipse.htm">table to ellipse</A> ... once made a little shuffle and ...</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 May 2017 20:27:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470235#M26826 DanPatterson_Retired 2017-05-16T20:27:10Z Re: Irregular shaped buffer. https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470236#M26827 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Perhaps this can be done using CAD blocks/cells</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 May 2017 00:53:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/irregular-shaped-buffer/m-p/470236#M26827 AlexZhuk 2017-05-19T00:53:10Z