featuresToRectanglesc

Features To Minimum Bounding Rectangles

Creates a bounding rectangle from each feature in the input feature class. Three ways to align the rectangles are available. Attributes of the original features are transferred to the resulting polygons.

Inputs:

A Polyline or Polygon feature class
The orientation of the rectangles to be created
- Along the longest segment of the polygon boundary
- Along the longest axis of the original polygons
- Minimum area rectangle

Outputs:

A polygon feature class. All attributes of the original features are preserved
New fields added to the attribute table
- ET_Length - the length longest side of the bounding rectangle in the units of the Spatial Reference of the input feature class
- ET Width - the length shortest side of the bounding rectangle in the units of the Spatial Reference of the input feature class

Examples:

Bounding rectangle aligned with the longest segment of the boundary of the input polygon

Bounding rectangle aligned with the longest axis of the boundary of the input polygon

Minimum area bounding rectangle

Running Programmatically

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Parameters

Expression	Explanation
Function Name	FeaturesToRectangles
<input dataset>	A String representing the input layer.
<output dataset>	A String - the full name of the output layer.
{Alignment}	A String defining the orientation of the rectangles to be created "LongestSegment" - aligns the rectangle along the longest segment of the polygon boundary "LongestAxis" - aligns the rectangle along the longest axis of the original polygons "MinArea" - Minimum area rectangle"

Running the function

ETGWPath used in the table below is the full path to ETGWRun.exe (E.G. "C:\Program Files\ETSpatial Techniques\ETGeo Wizards\ETGWRun.exe")

Language	Syntax
Python	subprocess.call([ETGWPath, "FeaturesToRectangles", "input dataset", "output dataset", "Alignment"])
.NET using ETGWRun.exe	StartInfo.FileName = ETGWPath StartInfo.Arguments = "FeaturesToRectangles" "input dataset" "output dataset" "Alignment"
.NET using ETGWOutX.dll	FeaturesToRectangles(input dataset, output dataset,Alignment)
ArcPy	arcpy.FeaturesToRectangles(input dataset, output dataset,Alignment)

Notes:

<> - required parameter
{} - optional parameter
See examples for Python , .NET or ArcPy
The argument separator for StartInfo.Arguments is space. If a string might contain a space, you need to double quote it.

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