ET GeoWizards Geoprocessing tools
Tools Available
| ET GeoWizards Tool | Comments on ET GeoWizards tools | Standard ArcGIS 9 | ||
| Similar Standard Tool | Available in | |||
| Toolbox | Tool | |||
| Point Distance | Analysis | Near | ArcInfo | |
| Measure Points | ||||
| Point Angle and Position | ||||
| Clean Polylines | Coverage | Clean | ArcInfo | |
| Clean Dangles | Coverage | Clean | ArcInfo | |
| Clean Pseudo Nodes | ||||
| Generalize | Data Management | Simplify Line | ArcInfo | |
| Densify | ||||
| Smooth Bezier | Data Management | Smooth Line | ArcInfo | |
| Smooth B-Spline | ||||
| Smooth T-Spline | ||||
| Export Nodes | ||||
| Build Polygons | Data Management | Feature To Polygon | ArcInfo | |
| Clean Polygons | Coverage | Clean | ||
| Erase | Analysis | Erase | ArcInfo | |
| Merge | Data Management | Append | Any | |
| Split By Attributes | ||||
| Split By Location | Analysis | Split | ||
| Select And Export | Analysis | Select | ||
| Spatial Join | ||||
| Points To Polylines | ||||
| Points To Polygons | ||||
| Polylines To Points | Data Management | Feature
To Point, Feature Vertices to Points |
ArcInfo | |
| Polygons To Points | Data Management | Feature
To Point, Feature Vertices to Points |
ArcInfo | |
| Polygons To Polylines | Data Management | Polygon To Line | ArcInfo | |
| PolylineZM To Points | ||||
| Polygon ZM To Points | ||||
| PointZM To Point | ||||
| Points To PolylineZM | ||||
| Points To PolygonZM | ||||
| Points To PointsZM | ||||
| COGO Inverse | ||||
| Build TIN | PolygonZ feature class | |||
| Build Thiessen | Analysis | Create Thiessen Polygons | ArcInfo | |
| Calculate | Calculates several spatial characteristics of features | Data Management | Add XY Coordinates | |
| Calculate Area | Calculates the area in user specified spatial reference and units | Script Available | Any | |
| Calculate Length | Calculates the length in user specified spatial reference and units | Any | ||
| Rename Field | ||||
| Add Attribute Index | Shapefiles only | Data Management | Add Attribute Index | ArcInfo |
| Add Spatial Index | Shapefiles only | Data Management | Add Spatial Index | ArcInfo |
| Get Point Coordinates | Data Management | Add XY Coordinates | ||
| Get Polygon Coordinates | ||||
| Get Polyline Coordinates | ||||
| Spider Diagram | ||||
| Transfer attributes | ||||
| Split polylines | ||||
| Polygons Clean Gaps | ||||
| Polygons Eliminate | Coverage | Eliminate | ArcInfo | |
| Advanced Merge | ||||
| PointIntersection | ||||
| BatchClip | ||||
| BatchErase | ||||
| Renode | ||||
| Snap Points | ||||
| Snap Polylines | ||||
| Merge Multiple | Analysis | Append | Any | |
| Sort Shapes | ||||
| Order Fields | ||||
| Station Points | ||||
| Batch DropZM | ||||
| Point Grid Origin | ||||
| Point Grid Extents | ||||
| Vector Grid Origin | ||||
| Vector Grid Extents | ||||
| Analyze TIN | ||||
| Interpolate Contours | ||||
| Remove Duplicates | ||||
| Polylines To Polygons | ||||
| Convex Hull | ||||
| Symmetrical Difference | Analysis | Symmetrical Difference | ArcInfo | |
| Thin Points | ||||
| Features To Envelopes | Data Management | Feature Envelope To Polygon | ArcInfo | |
| Features To Convex Polygons | ||||
| Features To Circles | ||||
| Features To Rectangles | ||||
| Generalize Polygons | Data Management | Simplify Polygon | ArcInfo | |
| Smooth Polygons | ||||
| Aggregate Polygons | Data Management | Aggregate Polygons | ArcInfo | |
| Create Centerlines | Data Management | Collapse Dual Lines | ArcInfo | |
| Partition Polygons | ||||
| Map To Google Earth | 3D Analyst | |||
| Feature Class to Google Earth | 3D Analyst | |||
| Import from Google Earth | 3D Analyst | |||
| Polygon Characteristics | ||||
| Perpendiculars from points to polylines | ||||
| ESRI TIN To PolygonZ | 3D Analyst | |||
| Shape To ShapeZ | ||||
| Point To Multipoint | Data Management | Dissolve | Any | |
| Disperse Points | ||||
| Random Points On Polylines | ||||
| Random Points In Polygons | Data Management | Create Random Points | ArcInfo | |
| Connect Points | ||||
| Split Polylines Basic* | ||||
| Polygon To Polyline Advanced* | ||||
| Station Lines* | ||||
| Clean Contour Gaps* | ||||
| Lines From Points, Direction & Distance* | ||||
*New in ET GeoWizards 9.8
Note: The similarity with the standard ArcGIS tools is established based on the descriptions in the ArcGIS documentation. The functionality of some of the tools might be quite different.