topic Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class in Geoprocessing Questions

Make Polyline from Point feature class

jasminkern — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:23:13 GMT

I have a shapefile with points and I want to make a line of all the points: 1 line that connects all points in the order of the attribute table. I couldn't find something in the toolboxes. I use ArcMap 9.3.
Can you help me please?
Best regards,
mariposa

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

KevinHibma — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:07:28 GMT

Try this:
http://resources.esri.com/geoprocessing/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=15945

So popular it was included as a tool in 10.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

jasminkern — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:51:32 GMT

Thank you - it works. Unfortunately al my attributes are lost and set to zero. Do you know a tool, where I can make multilines out of my points (from each point to its next is 1 line) ?

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

JohnMaclachlan — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:31:51 GMT

Have you tried to download the 'Xtools' package? If you only need to do this as a one off that should work.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

DanLee — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:31:08 GMT

Once you get the polyline from points using that script, you can try Split Line At Vertices tool (Data Management Toolbox - Features toolset), if you have ArcInfo license. That will break your polygon to straight line segments between vertices.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

CamrinBraun — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:35:17 GMT

Any idea how to preserve/attach point attributes to the polyline? Tried join by a common field but I just get a general error message.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

DanLee — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:04:28 GMT

Spatial Join tool should allow you to transfer attributes from features to spatially related features, for example from points to lines if the points are "intersecting" the lines or within a specified distance to the lines. They don't need to have a common field. Have you tried that?

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

CamrinBraun — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:25:02 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I did try a spatial join. A problem arises there because many of the lines intersect multiple points because I have some point clusters that are really close together and the line zig-zags throughout connecting them chronologically. Therefore, when I spatial join I have some lines that are right but others intersect several points.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

DanLee — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:48:43 GMT

If your line passes through coincident points, then Spatial Join will not be able to sort that out. Back to your earlier statement - you said you tried a join with a common field and it failed with an error. Since your points and lines have common filed, using a join to calculate field is the right way. I can't tell why you are getting an error. You will have to try to narrow it down to see if any particular feature(s) are causing the problem, or you may log a bug to Support. Thanks.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

DiannaGryniewski — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:35:32 GMT

Try this:
http://resources.esri.com/geoprocessing/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=15945

So popular it was included as a tool in 10.

I think that the link may have changed because it re-directs me to the main resource page. Can you please post an updated link? I am trying to create a polyline from a point file in 9.3 too. Thanks.

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

MelitaKennedy — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:24:17 GMT

Ah, it's on ArcScripts with the same ID: Convert Points to Lines

I haven't used it.

Melita

Re: Make Polyline from Point feature class

DiannaGryniewski — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:37:08 GMT

Thank you. I am a newer user with limited experience. How do you load the script?