Latest Contributions by SukhRehal

Hi Xander, The Polygons represent homes and the polylines are road bounderies. What Im trying to go is show a line from the road boundary to the home boundary but using the shortest line. I haven't attached a screen dump of what I want but I have attached my shapefiles. Hope this helps? Let me know i there is anything additional you may need. Regards Sukh ... View more

Hi Xander, apologies for the late reply. I converted the polygon to lines, which was straight forward and then created points along the line using a toolbox called Create Points On Line (http://ianbroad.com/arcgis-toolbox-create-points-polylines-arcpy/). Thinking about it now it clearly wasn't the right approach. ... View more

Hi Xander, What I did was convert a polygon to a points, what I was hoping to achieve is get the xy of of the closest point on a polygon to the closest point on a polyline (which I also converted to points, so I could get the xy). In the end my aim is to create a line between the 2 XY points, for this I would have used XY to Line tool. Thanks again, ... View more

Hi Xander, I have 1000s of points, in this case just under 5000. Additionally, I wouldnt have a clue where to begin with python ... View more

Hi Richard, Just wanted to update with this. It seems I may have over thought the original question I asked. In the end to count the possible number of utility poles I would need I simply did the following... 1. I created points on line intersects 2. I then placed points on a lines at given intervals depending on the line length. Obviously doing this meant that the poles were on street centre lines so their position wasn't accurate but it gave me an idea of the number of poles I I may need. However I wasn't able to get 12 properties per pole but in the end this didn't really matter. But to show the properties connected to poles I just created spider diagrams. Thanks again. ... View more

Thank you Duncan, just wanted to update you that I tried your above method and got the result I wanted. Thanks all as well! ... View more

Hi Dan, At the moment I wasn't really looking at the rules of the spatial merge. I was thinking only about adjacent polygons. So a start polygon will look at it's adjacent polygons and if they can merge based on the sum being <32 then they merge otherwise it doesn't. Basically something like a continuous loop of each polygon doing this until it's not possible to make more merges. I figured some sort of coding would be needed. That's definitely something I need to learn. Thanks for your response. ... View more

Thanks guys, appreciate your help! ... View more

Thanks guys, I will look into this tonight and will most likely post again at some point. Appreciate your help! ... View more

Ah well, that answers that then. Thanks for your help guys. ... View more

Hi dan, You're right . I can turn on arrow heads and then select multiple lines buy visually selecting. the only problem is that I have 1000s of lines and this is where I'm hoping to find a quicker solution. ... View more

Hi Duncan, Thanks for the links provided. The real issue I have is that at not all lines are flipped the right way? some lines already start at a point feature but some don't. Is there anything I can do to select the lines first that don't have their starting point at a feature and flip only those? ... View more