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.

Points 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.