WARNING 000636: Skipping feature [FID] because a negative or very small distance resulted in no geometry.
Hello,
I am using ArcMap 9.3.1 with ArcInfo license. I am trying to make a negative buffer for a large set of contiguous but non-overlapping polygons. However, out of the 108,087 polygons it skipped 429 of them and left this error message for each of the features it skipped:
I know for sure that the polygons are big enough and will not disappear from this negative buffer; they are all a very similar size.
I got the FIDs into a column in excel and extracted just these features into another shp and tried the negative buffer again and it only worked on the first one and skipped the rest.
I am currently splitting the polygon shp and will batch buffer on each one individually and hopefully it will work. However, does anyone know why this is happening and if there's a better solution?
Thanks,
James
Hi James,
Have you tried running the Check Geometry tool? Otherwise, I don't know what the problem could be.
Melita
Solved! I think....
In my case it was because of the Projection. I was using WGS aux. Sphere...
I used project to my local system (Stereo70 for Romania) and the problem was solved.
This issue still sucks but maybe this is of help