Remove duplicate lines

[BenLeslie1]

(I've removed duplicate points by doing a dissolve on XY coords.)

Now I need to remove duplicate lines (by duplicate I mean identical geometry - they may have different attributes but I don't care which one I keep).  I've used the Intersect tool to identify the duplicates but I don't know how to merge each duplicate into single records.  I have 7000 duplicates so manual merging isn't a realistic option.

I'm on standard licence.

[JohannesBierer]

You could erase the dublicates with ET Geowizzard (free function) or one of the Erase models ...?

[BenLeslie1]

Unfortunately erase duplicates isn't one of the free functions in ET Geowizards.

I'm attempting to iterate through my dataset, selecting identical and deleting using model builder.  It's not very intuative - had some strange results.... currently running attempt 3..... fingers crossed.

[JohannesBierer]

Don't know if I really understand. But the normal erase is a free function in ET Geowizard, I do use it often ...

Do you have the identical lines in one fc or in two?

[BenLeslie1]

Just one dataset (actually it was originally about 120 but I've merged them all into one - that's the goal, one dataset with duplicate geometries removed)

[JohannesBierer]

Maybe you could use the python script there:

How to delete duplicates...‌