topic Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons in Geoprocessing Questions

Automatically Resizing Polygons

MShairah — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 05:34:27 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm currently using ArcGIS 10.5. I was wondering if there is a tool that automatically adjusts a polygon to a specified size? Say I start with a triangle of 3 hectares, and I want to increase its area in all directions for it to become 5 hectares automatically, is there a tool that does this? Or a combination of tools perhaps?

Thank you

Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons

mdonnelly — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:17:59 GMT

Maybe this is what you could use:

https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/editing-existing-features/scaling-a-feature.htm

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/2.6/help/editing/move-or-rotate-or-scale-a-feature.htm#GUID-9E6FCFDA-84A6-4D3B-BDF1-3F248166F554

Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons

MShairah — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:25:10 GMT

Dear Mark,

Thanks for the response!

Although my problem with this tool is that I don't seem to end up with the exact measurement I want. You will see in the first image that the polygon is 0.890589 hectares. I wanted to upscale this to 0.9494 hectares by using 1.06571298 as the Scale Factor. You will see in the next image that I didn't arrive at this and instead got 1.011788. I'm not sure what's happening here but this tool can't seem to help me with what I want to happen. Any other solutions you can suggest?

Before Scale ToolAfter Scale Tool

Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons

mdonnelly — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:28:25 GMT

I am unsure why the tool behaves in that way. It might be worth raising a support ticket to see if there something that can be done.

I cant' think of any other OOTB tools that can help you with your problem. You could probably code something up in Python to do the job though.

Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons

MShairah — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:00:07 GMT

Hello again Mark,

Maybe I can bring it up with them. Unfortunately, I don't know enough Python to construct a code that will execute said task. I may have to wait for a response from esri regarding the tool.

Thanks for your responses 😁

Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons

mdonnelly — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:54:17 GMT

I did come across this bit of code, which may help:

import arcpy
import math

def scale_geom(geom, scale, reference=None):
    """Returns geom scaled to scale %"""
    if geom is None: return None
    if reference is None:
        # we'll use the centroid if no reference point is given
        reference = geom.centroid

    refgeom = arcpy.PointGeometry(reference)
    newparts = []
    for pind in range(geom.partCount):
        part = geom.getPart(pind)
        newpart = []
        for ptind in range(part.count):
            apnt = part.getObject(ptind)
            if apnt is None:
                # polygon boundaries and holes are all returned in the same part.
                # A null point separates each ring, so just pass it on to
                # preserve the holes.
                newpart.append(apnt)
                continue
            bdist = refgeom.distanceTo(apnt)

            bpnt = arcpy.Point(reference.X + bdist, reference.Y)
            adist = refgeom.distanceTo(bpnt)
            cdist = arcpy.PointGeometry(apnt).distanceTo(bpnt)

            # Law of Cosines, angle of C given lengths of a, b and c
            angle = math.acos((adist**2 + bdist**2 - cdist**2) / (2 * adist * bdist))

            scaledist = bdist * scale

            # If the point is below the reference point then our angle
            # is actually negative
            if apnt.Y < reference.Y: angle = angle * -1

            # Create a new point that is scaledist from the origin 
            # along the x axis. Rotate that point the same amount 
            # as the original then translate it to the reference point
            scalex = scaledist * math.cos(angle) + reference.X
            scaley = scaledist * math.sin(angle) + reference.Y

            newpart.append(arcpy.Point(scalex, scaley))
        newparts.append(newpart)

    return arcpy.Geometry(geom.type, arcpy.Array(newparts), geom.spatialReference)

You can call it with a geometry object, a scale factor (1 = same size, 0.5 = half size, 5 = 5 times as large, etc.), and an optional reference point:

scale_geom(some_geom, 1.5)

Referenced from here:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/169694/is-there-arcpy-tool-for-polygon-resizing-like-scale-tool-of-advanced-editing-too

Re: Automatically Resizing Polygons

MShairah — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:55:27 GMT

Hello Mark!

Thanks for this, although I've found another workaround (albeit manual) solution for my problem, I'll surely be studying this.

All the best! 😄