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I have a model in ArcGIS 10.3.1 which splits a large (> 1,000) polygons by a road network (as polylines). Currently, I am using Xtools' Split Polygons, but this would require an end-user to have a copy of XTools which I need to not be a requirement. I have found this tool, but, when I have tried to use it, it takes a very long time to run (much longer than the XTools equivalent). Does anyone know of any other tools which do the same thing, but are not locked behind non-ArcGIS purchasing licenses and are ideally only using ArcGIS geoprocessing tools?

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  • http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/31965/automated-geoprocesing-tool-to-slice-clip-or-cut-polygons-using-polylines-usin – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 16:33
  • http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/30586/programatically-splitting-polygon-with-line – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 16:33
  • @Midavalo, first link has Dalton's answer as best which I've already referenced above as the tool that takes too long. Second link has ET Wizards as the best answer which, without a license, has a max feature count of 300. – jwx Jan 25 '17 at 16:39
  • have you looked at the suggestion on how to possibly speed up Dalton's tool? – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 17:58
  • @Midavalo I do not see the comment you're referring to. Which thread and post? I see a Python script by user John, but that's the only thing I see that could be faster. – jwx Jan 25 '17 at 18:33
  • sorry, I meant to say in the link you mentioned in your question it offers a suggestion to speed it up by limiting "how far the lines will attempt to extend" – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 18:45
  • how long is "a very long time"? sometimes this is the trade-off for using provided tools instead of specific third party tools – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 18:48
  • @Midavalo, I do not think I implemented that limit, but I seem to have forgotten to write the answer to that in my notes. By a "very long time" I mean on the order of three hours for maybe 10,000 features. I think the result that helped point me to will work. – jwx Jan 25 '17 at 19:03
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    Please [edit] your question to include any extra info rather than as comments. Please also include how long it runs using XTools for comparison. – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 19:26
  • @Midavalo extra information being the rough time it takes? I'll post the answer just as soon as they stop trying to shut down my place of work... might take a bit. – jwx Jan 25 '17 at 21:01
  • comments are intended for potential answerers to request additional information or clarification. Your response to those comments should be as [edit]s to the original question – Midavalo Jan 25 '17 at 23:46

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Have you tried "Feature to Polygon", advanced license required? This tool will Cut Polygons with a Polyline FC. If you don't want the Road Network creating new polygons, first Clip the Road Network by Polygons so you are only dividing or cutting the existing Polygons.

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  • Funny, I was just reading your response on a post referenced by @Midavalo. Anyways, this set me down the right path, I think.

    I took your idea of clipping the transit routes to the polygons of interest; however, when I ran the Feature to Polygon tool some of my polygons were so tortured that it was really hard to find a clear way of extracting the features I wanted. So, I simply buffered the clipped routes by 1 meter then used the erase tool. I can't believe I didn't think of this before. I'd like to not remove that much of the polygon, but it should be fine.

     – jwx Jan 25 '17 at 18:59
  • Mark as solved it @klewis suggestion helped – FelixIP Jan 25 '17 at 23:52