Convert between shapefiles

Convert shapefiles as points, polylines polygons. It is very useful for example when required to join entities taken from points generated from a GPS device, then represent the shape of land, road, track, road, river, etc., as well as obtain the vertices of a polygon or polyline.

To convert entities, as appropriate, we headed from the ArcToolbox > Data Management Tools > Features.

Select the tools to create or convert entities as mentioned in the following paragraphs.

ArcToolbox Features ArcGISPoints To Line, convert points to line.

Feature To Line, allows the following operations:

  • Convert a polygon to polylines.
  • Create a polyline from points.

Feature To Point, allows the following operations:

  • Convert from polygon to points.
  • Convert a polyline to points.

Feature To Polygon, you can perform the following operations:

  • Create a polygon from points.
  • Convert a polyline to polygon.

Feature Vertices To Points, allows you to create points for the vertices of the entity.

Split Line At Vertices, can divide a polyline vertices.

3 thoughts on “Convert between shapefiles”

  1. Thank you for providing this. Be careful for multi-part features (lines, or polygons), and polygons with internal holes or external islands of the same feature. This would most likely require an additional operation. Hope this helps.

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