topic Create Points Within Polygon Feature in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160450#M5399 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to get an estimate of the number of wells that can be installed within an area. Is there a tool that will generate and populate a point feature class with points evenly distributed within a selected polygon feature that are spaced a determined distance i.e 50'?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm thinking of something similar to the ARRAY command in AutoCAD.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:24:23 GMT JamesHarrington 2013-04-09T15:24:23Z Create Points Within Polygon Feature https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160450#M5399 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to get an estimate of the number of wells that can be installed within an area. Is there a tool that will generate and populate a point feature class with points evenly distributed within a selected polygon feature that are spaced a determined distance i.e 50'?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm thinking of something similar to the ARRAY command in AutoCAD.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:24:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160450#M5399 JamesHarrington 2013-04-09T15:24:23Z Re: Create Points Within Polygon Feature https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160451#M5400 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Have a look of the Create Fishnet tool. you can get evenly spaced points.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Then you can use Spatial Join tool to see how many points are 'CONTAINED' by each polygon.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:54:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160451#M5400 DanLee 2013-04-09T15:54:14Z Re: Create Points Within Polygon Feature https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160452#M5401 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Have a look of the Create Fishnet tool. you can get evenly spaced points.<BR />Then you can use Spatial Join tool to see how many points are 'CONTAINED' by each polygon.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Another approach is to convert the feature class to raster using your separation distance at the cell size and the extent set to your polygon(s), then convert back to points -- then run the spatial join.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:27:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160452#M5401 curtvprice 2013-04-09T16:27:33Z Re: Create Points Within Polygon Feature https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160453#M5402 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>That worked nicely! Thanks! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:41:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/create-points-within-polygon-feature/m-p/160453#M5402 JamesHarrington 2013-04-09T16:41:57Z