topic Re: Arcpy - Reproject Polygon object in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-reproject-polygon-object/m-p/477052#M37347 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">My script creates an arcpy.Polygon object from the extent of a data frame in an MXD. The coordinate system of the data frame varies in different maps. So the spatial reference of the arcpy.Polygon object can also vary. What I want the script to do is re-project the arcpy.Polygon object into a standard coordinate system, but I don't see a function to do this. I know I can call the Project_management tool, but that requires an output feature class to be created. I would much rather the reprojected output be a new arcpy.Polygon object.<BR /><BR />Is there an option to re-project an arcpy.Polygon object into another arcpy.Polygon object?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I went another way with this. I found out that my cursor can be defined with a spatial reference that will transform any other reference to the defined one. So I set the spatial reference in the cursor to the standard coordinate system and it re-projects the arcpy.Polygon object before inserting it into the feature class.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:32:21 GMT deleted-user-1T_bOHag6M8d 2011-04-19T16:32:21Z Arcpy - Reproject Polygon object https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-reproject-polygon-object/m-p/477051#M37346 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>My script creates an arcpy.Polygon object from the extent of a data frame in an MXD. The coordinate system of the data frame varies in different maps. So the spatial reference of the arcpy.Polygon object can also vary. What I want the script to do is re-project the arcpy.Polygon object into a standard coordinate system, but I don't see a function to do this. I know I can call the Project_management tool, but that requires an output feature class to be created. I would much rather the reprojected output be a new arcpy.Polygon object.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there an option to re-project an arcpy.Polygon object into another arcpy.Polygon object?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:00:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-reproject-polygon-object/m-p/477051#M37346 deleted-user-1T_bOHag6M8d 2011-04-19T15:00:33Z Re: Arcpy - Reproject Polygon object https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-reproject-polygon-object/m-p/477052#M37347 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">My script creates an arcpy.Polygon object from the extent of a data frame in an MXD. The coordinate system of the data frame varies in different maps. So the spatial reference of the arcpy.Polygon object can also vary. What I want the script to do is re-project the arcpy.Polygon object into a standard coordinate system, but I don't see a function to do this. I know I can call the Project_management tool, but that requires an output feature class to be created. I would much rather the reprojected output be a new arcpy.Polygon object.<BR /><BR />Is there an option to re-project an arcpy.Polygon object into another arcpy.Polygon object?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I went another way with this. I found out that my cursor can be defined with a spatial reference that will transform any other reference to the defined one. So I set the spatial reference in the cursor to the standard coordinate system and it re-projects the arcpy.Polygon object before inserting it into the feature class.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:32:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-reproject-polygon-object/m-p/477052#M37347 deleted-user-1T_bOHag6M8d 2011-04-19T16:32:21Z