topic Re: Calculate the centroid of a polygon using field calculator in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567069#M3810 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You could also add&nbsp;<STRONG><A class="link-titled" href="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/add-geometry-attributes.htm" title="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/add-geometry-attributes.htm">Add Geometry Attributes—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;</STRONG>to your model for adding new geometry fields to the input features.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:51:27 GMT JayantaPoddar 2016-11-11T01:51:27Z Calculate the centroid of a polygon using field calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567067#M3808 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is it possible to calculate the centroid of a polygon using field calculator? I am using model builder, and have an empty longitude and latitude field I need to populate (with a goal of identifying the centroid for when the model later converts the polygon to a point shapefile). </P><P></P><P>I am currently using (!shape.extent.YMax! + !shape.extent.YMin!) / 2&nbsp; &amp; (!shape.extent.XMax! + !shape.extent.XMin!) / 2 to calculate lat long values, but of course this does not result in the center of the polygon unless it is a square.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:59:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567067#M3808 AdamVajda 2016-11-10T23:59:32Z Re: Calculate the centroid of a polygon using field calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567068#M3809 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/python/reading-geometries.htm#GUID-9FC74E09-898D-4A5E-9A07-76CD911C2AC6" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/python/reading-geometries.htm#GUID-9FC74E09-898D-4A5E-9A07-76CD911C2AC6">Reading geometries—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;You missed a whole section in the arcpy help... maybe Truecentroid... your choice, but have a look at what is there</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:31:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567068#M3809 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-11-11T00:31:32Z Re: Calculate the centroid of a polygon using field calculator https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567069#M3810 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You could also add&nbsp;<STRONG><A class="link-titled" href="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/add-geometry-attributes.htm" title="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/add-geometry-attributes.htm">Add Geometry Attributes—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;</STRONG>to your model for adding new geometry fields to the input features.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:51:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/calculate-the-centroid-of-a-polygon-using-field/m-p/567069#M3810 JayantaPoddar 2016-11-11T01:51:27Z