New Tool POLYDIVIDE?

It will work on any closed polyline, even one in an xref. It will leave the source polyline unaltered.
After choosing the polyline and the number of desired equal sections, it will prompt you for the angle to use in dividing the polyline.
Have fun!

—J

Cool, I will mess around with and see what trouble I can get into.

Request for a powertip video . I have no idea how to use POLYDIVIDE. I drew a closed rectangle, selected a number, like 3, and all it did was make a line and a prompt, "polyline did not evenly"

Chris, can you send in the drawing where it didn't divide evenly in a ticket? We'll have a look.
Add a Drawing File to an Existing Technical Support Ticket

-Amanda

Amanda, I tried a new drawing it worked. Is it supposed to just create separate closed polylines of equal areas by making rows/coloumns depending on the angle you choose? if that's it...it's pretty cool, I see this being very helpful with diving areas for something like dripzones. One feature one be cool if you guys could pull it off for oblong or circular divides is maybe have an option to select a center, kinda like making a pie. The only limitations I've experienced was if the closed area is very amoeba-ish, then i'll get the prompt "Angle specified does not intersect polygon appropriately".

The tool is intended for "normalized" polyline areas. As in, if you are having difficulty splitting a rectangle into equal pieces, you might need to repeat high school math
See the attached, your typical undulating polyline area. Given that, and the desired 3 areas, and the specified angle, it does its magic.

--J

Hey now, I think my math is pretty decent its this crazy common core math that's driving me nuts when I'm helping my kids. it literally enforces how many times can you skin a cat, with conviction. hate it. haha

see attached images of my polydivide fun, all were able to divide except my crazy amoeba shapes.

Yeah, it's not going to be able to help you with areas that can't have a consistent crossing angle.
I also added some additional error handling into to account for decurve issues, as well as crossing at the same angle as a segment -- it seems *my* math skills were a bit dubious....
Update posting in moments.

--J