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Perpendiculars from Points to Polylines Wizard

Draws a perpendicular polyline from each point to the closest polyline from the reference layer and calculates several attributes for each perpendicular line.

Inputs:

• A point feature class
• A reference polyline feature class
• Search tolerance.

Outputs:

• New Polyline feature class with lines from the source points and perpendicular to the closest polyline from the reference feature class.
• The attributes of the original points are transferred to the resulting lines.
• The following fields are added to the attribute table of the resulting feature class.
  • [ET_Dist] - the distance from the original point to the closest polyline (the length of the perpendicular line) 
  • [ET_Pos] - the relative position of the original point along the closest polyline (in percents)
  • [ET_Angle] - the angle (0 to 360) of the resulting perpendicular line in degrees starting North clockwise
  • [ET_Station] - the absolute position of the original point along the closest polyline (in the units of the spatial reference of the input point feature class)

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