pointsToRegularPolygons

Creates regular polygons from points in a point dataset and user defined number of sides, size and rotation angle. The source point will be located in the center of the polygons.

Inputs:

A Point feature class
Number of sides of the polygons to be created.
Size represents option - depending on the user input the size parameter can represent
- The side of the polygon
- The radius of the circle inscribed in the polygon
- The radius of the circle circumscribed around the polygon.
Size of the polygon. The size can be fixed for all points or different assigned from the values in a numeric field of the point attribute table
Rotation angle.

Outputs:

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

Notes:

The values for the size 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. The angle defines the location of the start vertex of the polygon.

Examples:

Size = 30 , Angle = 0, Number sides = 5 Option - Radius Inscribed	Size = 30 , Angle = 0, Number sides = 5 Option - Radius Circumscribed	Size = 30 , Angle = 0, Number sides = 5 Option - Side

Size = 30 , Angle = 0, Number sides = 6 Option - Radius Circumscribed	Size = 30 , Angle = 0, Number sides = 7 Option - Radius Circumscribed	Size = 30 , Angle = 0, Number sides = 8 Option - Radius Circumscribed

ToolBox implementation
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Command line syntax

ET_GPPointsToRegularPolygons <input_dataset> <out_feature_class> <number_sides> <Radius In | Radius Out | Side> <Size> <size_field> <rotation_angle>

Parameters

Expression	Explanation
<input_dataset>	A Point feature class or feature layer
<out_feature_class>	A String - the full name of the output feature class (A feature class with the same full name should not exist)
<number_sides>	An Integer defining the number of sides of the polygons to be created.
<Radius In \| Radius Out \| Side>	Required. A String indicating the meaning of the <SIZE> parameter Radius In - radius of the inscribed circle Radius Out - radius of the circumscribed circle Side - the side of the polygon
<Size>	A Double representing the size (see above for options)
<size_field>	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.
{rotation_angle}	A Double representing the rotation angle (see above)

Scripting syntax

ET_GPPointsToRegularPolygons (input_dataset, out_feature_class,number_sides,size_represents, size, size_field, rotation_angle)

See the explanations above:
<> - required parameter
{} - optional parameter