Network Analyst Flip Line direction by Order Sequence

[DevinUnderwood3]

I want to flip all route lines according to the orders sequence numbers.

I would then show arrows with the correct direction of travel.

I tried using the Sort tool to resort records according to the sequence number.  I must be mistaken that it does not resort/flip the lines and direction.

Is there a possible way to accomplish what I am attempting to do ?

Thank You.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

What did you sort on? Sorting on the geometry won't flip lines.  

Flip does is you have an advanced or standard licence http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/editing/flip-line.htm

[DevinUnderwood3]

I am using ArcMap and have advanced license, manual flipping one by one works fine.

I sorted on sequence numbers I obtained from routing orders.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

sorting on sequence numbers will just sort on those numbers, but as you well know, it does nothing to the geometry

[DevinUnderwood3]

Thanks for the feedback, I will have to take another approach.

[XanderBakker]

Flip is the way to go as Dan already mentioned. Just some side notes:

• The tool will modify the input featureclass (so perhaps use a copy to test it on)
• It works with selections. If you can select all the elements that need to be flipped, the tool will only change those.

[DevinUnderwood3]

I agree and have performed these steps for flipping a line, it is not a practical solution for every line.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

An alternative then is to use the reversed arrow symbology... it will draw in the opposite direction to that in which it was digitized.

[XanderBakker]

I was referring to creating a selection of all the features that require flipping and apply the tool once to flip all those features. In case you can't use the attributes to define that selection, probably a bit of code could do the trick. I have done similar things in the past. Can you share a small part of your data and indicate which attribute you use to define the order of the segments?

[JaySandhu]

>I want to flip all route lines according to the orders sequence numbers.

The output route from a route or VRP is a single feature class (per route) and it is already oriented in the direction of the orders sequence numbers. I do not understand your use case to "flip" these.

Jay Sandhu