topic Re: Need to automate the process of creating soil sample points in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-automate-the-process-of-creating-soil/m-p/21681#M1673 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>To generate point patterns, see<A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.esri.com/blogs/dan_patterson/2014/10/28/points-makermaking-point-patterns-for-testing-purposes-v-1"> my blog&nbsp;&nbsp; </A>a grid pattern is probably what you want.&nbsp; The pdf file in the blog gives technical details and the blog contains a link to the toolbox.&nbsp; If you have a field in the text file which can be used as an ID field, you can join your tabular data to the points file.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:43:45 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2014-10-28T16:43:45Z Need to automate the process of creating soil sample points https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-automate-the-process-of-creating-soil/m-p/21680#M1672 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am trying to automate the process of creating soil sample points in ArcGIS I have an ANSI text file with no lat long just attributes. I need to organize the attributes in the text file and link to a point file in as few steps as possible. Any ideas for automation?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:05:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-automate-the-process-of-creating-soil/m-p/21680#M1672 AndrewWindham 2014-10-28T16:05:12Z Re: Need to automate the process of creating soil sample points https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-automate-the-process-of-creating-soil/m-p/21681#M1673 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>To generate point patterns, see<A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.esri.com/blogs/dan_patterson/2014/10/28/points-makermaking-point-patterns-for-testing-purposes-v-1"> my blog&nbsp;&nbsp; </A>a grid pattern is probably what you want.&nbsp; The pdf file in the blog gives technical details and the blog contains a link to the toolbox.&nbsp; If you have a field in the text file which can be used as an ID field, you can join your tabular data to the points file.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:43:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-automate-the-process-of-creating-soil/m-p/21681#M1673 DanPatterson_Retired 2014-10-28T16:43:45Z