Polygons to segments

Functionality / Algorithm

The Polygons to segments operation extracts polygon boundaries and creates a segment map out of them. By default, the operation extracts segments from all polygon boundaries of the input map. You can also specify a mask to extract segments of specific polygons. The operation might be useful when you want to edit/update boundaries of polygons.

There are two possibilities to assign names to the extracted segments:

Input map requirements:

No special input map requirements.

Domain and coordinate system of output map:

The operation creates a new domain which is stored by the output map (internal domain).

The output segment map uses the same coordinate system as the input polygon map.

Attribute table for output map:

When the Unique Names option is used, an attribute table will be automatically created for the output map. The table will obtain the same name as the output map; it will contain the names of the polygons to the right and to the left of each extracted segment and the length of each extracted segment.

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