topic Error with Buffering FGDB polygon feature class in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/error-with-buffering-fgdb-polygon-feature-class/m-p/97112#M3345 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Has anyone run into this issue? I have a script that takes a bunch of points in a FGDB, creates a line with them, buffers the line then does some more analysis and outputs a polygon to a FGDB. At the last stage where I want to do a negative buffer on the polygon I've created, I get an error. I try opening the feature class in ArcMap/Catalog and I can't do a buffer positive or negative. I can run other GP tools on it, merge, intersect, dissolve etc, but not buffer. I tried running repair geometry on it and it found nothing wrong.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the interesting part. If I change the buffer output from a FGDB feature class to a shapefile it works fine. If I export the feature class from FGDB to a shapefile, then run the buffer with the output as a FGDB it works fine. I have reached the end of my troubleshooting abilities. Any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the error I get.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">ERROR 999999: Error executing function. cannot buffer a geometry by a distance of zero units Failed to execute (Buffer).</PRE></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:11:55 GMT MathewCoyle 2012-03-29T19:11:55Z Error with Buffering FGDB polygon feature class https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/error-with-buffering-fgdb-polygon-feature-class/m-p/97112#M3345 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Has anyone run into this issue? I have a script that takes a bunch of points in a FGDB, creates a line with them, buffers the line then does some more analysis and outputs a polygon to a FGDB. At the last stage where I want to do a negative buffer on the polygon I've created, I get an error. I try opening the feature class in ArcMap/Catalog and I can't do a buffer positive or negative. I can run other GP tools on it, merge, intersect, dissolve etc, but not buffer. I tried running repair geometry on it and it found nothing wrong.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the interesting part. If I change the buffer output from a FGDB feature class to a shapefile it works fine. If I export the feature class from FGDB to a shapefile, then run the buffer with the output as a FGDB it works fine. I have reached the end of my troubleshooting abilities. Any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the error I get.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">ERROR 999999: Error executing function. cannot buffer a geometry by a distance of zero units Failed to execute (Buffer).</PRE></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:11:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/error-with-buffering-fgdb-polygon-feature-class/m-p/97112#M3345 MathewCoyle 2012-03-29T19:11:55Z Re: Error with Buffering FGDB polygon feature class https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/error-with-buffering-fgdb-polygon-feature-class/m-p/97113#M3346 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>After two reboots it works, exactly as I executed it before and got an error. Ghost in the machine I guess.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:09:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/error-with-buffering-fgdb-polygon-feature-class/m-p/97113#M3346 MathewCoyle 2012-04-04T17:09:24Z