topic Calculating Angles for Organically shaped Polygons in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/calculating-angles-for-organically-shaped-polygons/m-p/392258#M13365 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello and thank you for reading,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was hoping someone might know how to determine the angle of a polygon feature that is more random? I read about the Calculate Polygon Main Angle tool and it says that it is best for "orthogonal polygons rather than organically shaped ones". The polygon that I am using is different segments of a very large lake, so most of the sections of the polygon are not straight so I am worried that the values returned from running this tool might not be exactly what I am looking for.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:33:20 GMT JonathanNewell 2014-04-15T14:33:20Z Calculating Angles for Organically shaped Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/calculating-angles-for-organically-shaped-polygons/m-p/392258#M13365 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello and thank you for reading,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was hoping someone might know how to determine the angle of a polygon feature that is more random? I read about the Calculate Polygon Main Angle tool and it says that it is best for "orthogonal polygons rather than organically shaped ones". The polygon that I am using is different segments of a very large lake, so most of the sections of the polygon are not straight so I am worried that the values returned from running this tool might not be exactly what I am looking for.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:33:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/calculating-angles-for-organically-shaped-polygons/m-p/392258#M13365 JonathanNewell 2014-04-15T14:33:20Z Re: Calculating Angles for Organically shaped Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/calculating-angles-for-organically-shaped-polygons/m-p/392259#M13366 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Never tried this, but what if you converted your polygon into points, graphed them in excel using the xy coordinates, and then added a trend line?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Jim</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:42:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/calculating-angles-for-organically-shaped-polygons/m-p/392259#M13366 JimCousins 2014-04-16T12:42:49Z