topic Splitting multiple lines at once in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507034#M28730 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi there,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have several thousand bird flightlines on a map and I would like to be able to split each one into 1km sections. I can do this for individual lines (using the "Divide Line by Length" Add-in) but doing this for all my lines will take rather a long time. Does anyone know of a way to split all my lines into 1km sections at once?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be most gratefully received - I am something of a GIS novice</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>With thanks and best wishes</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ailsa McKenzie</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Newcastle University, UK</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:39:29 GMT AilsaMcKenzie 2013-07-24T09:39:29Z Splitting multiple lines at once https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507034#M28730 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi there,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have several thousand bird flightlines on a map and I would like to be able to split each one into 1km sections. I can do this for individual lines (using the "Divide Line by Length" Add-in) but doing this for all my lines will take rather a long time. Does anyone know of a way to split all my lines into 1km sections at once?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be most gratefully received - I am something of a GIS novice</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>With thanks and best wishes</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ailsa McKenzie</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Newcastle University, UK</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:39:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507034#M28730 AilsaMcKenzie 2013-07-24T09:39:29Z Re: Splitting multiple lines at once https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507035#M28731 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have ETGeowizards and it has a batch split lines tool.&nbsp; I don't know if it is one of the free or paid tools.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For a free approach you might check out: </SPAN><A href="http://nodedangles.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/quick-dirty-arcpy-batch-splitting-polylines-to-a-specific-length/">http://nodedangles.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/quick-dirty-arcpy-batch-splitting-polylines-to-a-specific-length/</A><SPAN>.&nbsp; I have not used this so I can't vouch for its value.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:39:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507035#M28731 JohnSobetzer 2013-07-24T13:39:35Z Re: Splitting multiple lines at once https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507036#M28732 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You, sir, are a hero! I got that download to work no problem and it appears to work like a dream.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Can't thank you enough</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Best wishes</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ailsa</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:54:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/splitting-multiple-lines-at-once/m-p/507036#M28732 AilsaMcKenzie 2013-07-25T12:54:57Z