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What is difference between polygon and polyline?
Polyline geometries are made up of two or more vertices forming a connected line. Polygon geometries are made up of at least four vertices forming an enclosed area. The first and last vertices are always in the same place.
What is Plines?
A polyline is a connected sequence of line segments created as a single object. You can create straight line segments, arc segments, or a combination of the two. Absolute line width (as an alternative to relative lineweight) that can be constant or tapered across a segment.
How to create polygons from lines in ArcGIS?
If you have line features, you can create polygon features from them. For example, you might need to create parcel polygons from lot lines, lakes from shorelines, or street polygons from pavement lines. There are several ways you can use line features to create polygon features.
When to write feature to line in ArcGIS?
For coincident lines or polygon boundaries from two different sets of input features, for example, a line overlapping a polygon boundary, only one line feature with the attributes of both source features will be written to the output.
What does intersect at a line mean in ArcGIS?
The output line features are where a polygon from one of the input feature classes share a common boundary (intersect at a line) with a polygon from the other input feature class. The graphic below illustrates the result of intersecting two polygon feature classes with the Output Type parameter set to POINT.
Can a polygon be written as a line feature?
If an input line or polygon boundary is not intersected by another feature, its entire shape will still be written out as a line feature. For multipart input features, the output lines will be singlepart. For input features that are parametric (true) curves, the output lines will remain true curves even if they are split.