How to convert overlapping polylines to overlapping polygons

[RickBombaci]

I have a shapefile with overlapping "polygons" that are actually polylines. How can I convert the polylines to polygons without having ArcGIS converting the areas of overlap into new polygons?

For example, if I have two overlapping polyline figures, I want to end up with two overlapping polygons, not three (where the third polygon is actually an area of overlap between the two polyline figures).

Thank you,

Rick

[DanPatterson_Retired]

there has to be a quicker way than saving each polygon as a separate file, then merging them together...but in a pinch it would work

[StevenGraf1]

I have never tried ET_GeoWizards tools.  There are several free tools in the toolbar and Polyline to Polygon looks to be one of them.  It may be worth a shot.

Steven

[StevenGraf1]

Another option more along the lines of Dan's response would be to create a model that iterates over a unique value in your polyline layer which then converts each polyline into a polygon.  Each polygon would be in it's own feature class and then you could merge them together.

[RickBombaci · Accepted solution]

Thanks to Dan and Steven for your suggestions. I noodled around and found an excellent tool from Jenness Enterprises called Tools for Graphics and Shapes (Jenness Enterprises - ArcGIS Tools ). Simple to use, and did exactly what I needed with no fuss or bother.