Shrink wrap isn’t just for yesterday’s leftovers!
Have you ever wanted to quickly create a polyline around the outside of several objects? If you are like me, the situation comes up all of the time. For example, representing several parcels as a single polyline outline, consolidating numerous catchment areas before performing analysis, combining irregular shaped objects to compute an overall area, creating a bounding box around text, determining a complex hatching boundary….
Essentially, there are numerous situations where a tool like this would be very helpful. Fortunately for us this tool already exists!!
The tool is LINEWORKSHRINKWRAP and it couldn’t be easier to use. Simply launch the command and select the objects you would like to “shrinkwrap” a polyline around. (They don’t even have to touch!!)
Check out the video below to see it in action:
-Jerry
Wow! Now THAT is a good one!!
Posted by: Todd Rogers | 06/08/2016 at 05:41 AM