pointsToRectangles

Points To Rectangles

Creates rectangles from points in a point dataset and user defined width, height rotation angle and location of the point.

Inputs:

A Point feature class
Rectangle Width. The width can be fixed for all points or different assigned from the values in a numeric field of the point attribute table
Rectangle Height. The height can be fixed for all points or different assigned from the values in a numeric field of the point attribute table
Rotation angle. The angle can be fixed for all points or different assigned from the values in a numeric field of the point attribute table
Point location. This parameter defines what will be the location of the resulting rectangles in relation to the original points.

Outputs:

New polygon feature class. All the original field values will be transferred from the points to the polygons.

Notes:

The values for the Width and the Height should be in the units of the spatial reference of the input Point dataset
The angle (if used) should be in Decimal Degrees and have Polar orientation - East = 0, anti-clockwise

Examples:

Width = 300, Height = 200, Angle = 15, Location = "Center"

Width = 300, Height = 200, Angle = 15, Location = "LL" (Lower Left)

Width = 300, Height = 200, Angle = 0, Location = "UR" (Upper Right)

Running Programmatically

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Parameters

Expression	Explanation
Function Name	PointsToRectangles
<input dataset>	A String representing the input layer. Must be of Point type.
<output dataset>	A String - the full name of the output layer.
<Location>	Required. A String -This parameter defines what will be the location of the resulting rectangles in relation to the original points: "LL" - Lower Left corner of the rectangles will be located on the input point. "LR" - Lower Right corner of the rectangles will be located on the input point. "UL" - Upper Left corner of the rectangles will be located on the input point. "UR" - Upper Right corner of the rectangles will be located on the input point. Any other string used will cause the centers of the rectangles to be located on the input point.
{Width}	A Double representing the rectangle width
{WidthField}	A String representing the name of a field in the in the attribute table of the input dataset. The field has the values for the size of the polygons to be created.
{Height}	A Double representing the rectangle height
{HeightField	A String representing the name of a field in the in the attribute table of the input dataset field name. The field has the values for the height of the rectangles to be created.
{RotationAngle}	A Double representing the rotation angle.
{AngleField}	A String representing the name of a field in the in the attribute table of the input dataset field name. The field has the values for the rotation angle of the rectangles to be created. The angle should be in Decimal Degrees and have Polar orientation - East = 0, anti-clockwise.

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, "PointsToRectangles", "input dataset", "output dataset", "Location", "Width", "", "Height", "", "RotationAngle"])
.NET using ETGWRun.exe	StartInfo.FileName = ETGWPath StartInfo.Arguments = "PointsToRectangles" "input dataset" "output dataset" "Location" "Width" "" "Height" "" "RotationAngle"
.NET using ETGWOutX.dll	PointsToRectangles(input dataset, output dataset, Location, Width, "", Height, "", RotationAngle)
ArcPy	arcpy.PointsToRectangles(input dataset, output dataset, "Location" , "Width", "", "Height", "", "RotationAngle")

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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