topic Re: Dissolving Multiple Features? in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457899#M15406 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I may be misunderstanding your problem but why can't you simply execute the Dissolve once by a field that is coded by the unique values you want to dissolve by?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:02:07 GMT T__WayneWhitley 2012-11-23T16:02:07Z Dissolving Multiple Features? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457898#M15405 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a tool or script which can dissolve multiple features?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have many shape files which are the output of a complex model which I need to dissolve by a Sub Type field. The structure and attribute tables of all the features are identical.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to avoid building a model which has many dissolve tools running over and over again like this...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[ATTACH=CONFIG]19495[/ATTACH]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:08:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457898#M15405 TomHutchinson 2012-11-23T15:08:23Z Re: Dissolving Multiple Features? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457899#M15406 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I may be misunderstanding your problem but why can't you simply execute the Dissolve once by a field that is coded by the unique values you want to dissolve by?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:02:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457899#M15406 T__WayneWhitley 2012-11-23T16:02:07Z Re: Dissolving Multiple Features? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457900#M15407 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You can use Iterate Feature Class to loop in one shape file at a time to run the same Dissolve process.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Take a look of the example in this Help topic:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Examples_of_using_iterators_in_ModelBuilder/00400000001n000000/ESRI_SECTION1_46903073A36D4E928AAFC0F0AE5240EC/">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Examples_of_using_iterators_in_ModelBuilder/00400000001n000000/ESRI_SECTION1_46903073A36D4E928AAFC0F0AE5240EC/</A><BR /><SPAN>It also explains how to use an inline variable for output names.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:29:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/dissolving-multiple-features/m-p/457900#M15407 DanLee 2012-11-27T15:29:35Z