Advanced Tools with a Basic License

Polygon to Line (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction The Polygon to Line (Data Management) tool is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. You can check out the Esri documentation for this tool here. For now, we will omit the optional identifying neighbouring information and will revisit in the future. A little about this tool; for each input …

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Sort (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction The Sort (Data Management) tool has limited functionality on a Basic and Standard licence, you can only sort by one field and cannot use a spatial sort. We saw in this blog post how we can use the Export Features (Conversion) tool to sort a feature class or table by multiple fields, unfortunately …

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Feature Envelope to Polygon (Data Management) on a Basic Licence with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction Not the most fanciest of tools but another one none-the-less that you can by-pass the Advanced license requirement and create your own tool using ArcPy. The Feature Envelope To Polygon (Data Management) is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. You can achieve quite similar to this tool using …

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Split Line at Point (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction This one re-uses plenty of lines of code from the Split Line at Vertices tool. The Split Line at Point (Data Management) geoprocessing tool is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. Here’s how you can use ArcPy to achieve a similar output (if not the exact same for this one!). …

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Feature Vertices to Points (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction This was a fun and challenging one to do! The Feature Vertices to Points (Data Management) geoprocessing tool is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. Here’s how you can use ArcPy to achieve a similar output. Check out the Esri documentation for more information on the tool here. …

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Create Random Points (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction The Create Random Points (Data Management) tool is available with an Advanced license or on a Basic or Standard license if you have 3D Analyst or Spatial Analyst. In this post we will look at creating the tool for use with a Basic license. We’ll keep it simple for now and …

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Split Line at Vertices (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy

Table of Contents Introduction The Split Line at Vertices (Data Management) geoprocessing tool is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. Here’s how you can use ArcPy to achieve a similar output. While the Advanced tool will take a linear or polygon feature class as input, here, we will only look at splitting …

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