Irregular shaped buffer.

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05-15-2017 02:27 PM
iankirschner
New Contributor

I need to buffer a point feature to an irregular shape. The buffer needs to be 20m x 80m x 80m x 100m from a center point. 

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curtvprice
MVP Esteemed Contributor

The easiest way to do this is in arcpy using the Geometry object. You can create a feature class, create a bunch of geometries, and copy them into the feature class using Copy Features.

Using geometry objects with geoprocessing tools—ArcPy Get Started | ArcGIS Desktop 

BlakeTerhune
MVP Regular Contributor

I agree that https://community.esri.com/community/developers/gis-developers/python would probably be your best bet here. Are there any rules about the orientation of this irregular shape?

DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

also, where is the 'centre-ish' feature with respect to the dimensions and as Blake indicated, its orientation?

Just thought it might be easier to produce the shape, place it about a 'central' point, then translate and rotate the resultant into its final position.

curtvprice
MVP Esteemed Contributor

Dan, I like this idea - create the buffer about 0,0 and then write and use a little function to copy the template buffer poly and shift/rotate the xys into place for each point. 

If you need code to rotate XYs there is a function of mine in this thread. The code also has code to use the function to rotate a polygon. Not as easy as one would hope. bixb0012 is on to something with his idea https://community.esri.com/ideas/10963!

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VinceAngelo
Esri Esteemed Contributor

Please add a graphic describing your goal.  If it looks like this GIS StackExchange post, then there's already  an answer.

DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

Vince mentioned ellipses over there.... table to ellipse ... once made a little shuffle and ...

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AlexZhuk
Occasional Contributor III

Perhaps this can be done using CAD blocks/cells

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