How to use intersect tool

[IrfaanYasin]

Hi Guys,

I'm drawn a buffer of 30m around pipework.  I have also drawn a 100m grid.  Now what I want to do is find out which pipes buffer sits in each grid square, and how much area within the grid it covers.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

If you have useful projected data, or can calculate area in each layer in projected coordinates,

then the information should be in the table.

There are a couple of options that you can look at

Intersect—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  (use ratio policy)

How Pairwise Intersect works—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

but I like

Union—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  (use ratio policy)

since I like to track what didn't intersect

[ChrisDonohue__GISP]

Another option:

Identity—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

Though Union and Intersect are probably easier to get started with.

Chris Donohue, GISP

[IrfaanYasin]

Thanks guys.  Just to point out the tools were working, but the reason I kept getting failures was because I was exporting to a shape file, and it had more lines than excel could handle, so the data was getting lost.  Exported to a GeoDatabase, and it all worked fine.