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I'm working with parcel data to get the dimensions of each lot to correspond with known dimensions. Is there a way to display the individual lengths of each line comprising the perimeter of a polygon? In other words, is there a way to display the distance between each vertex of a polygon in the map while editing?

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I think you will want to create a parcel fabric

parcel fabric screenshot from ESRI docs

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check out the 'feature to line' tool within the Data Management Tools-->Features toolbox. This should help you. You'll need to convert your polygons to lines and then you can label based on the length field.

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It looks like that will get me most of the way there. I realize I'm probably asking too much when I say I'd like it to update as I edit the polygons. This is a nice solution though, and a big help, thanks. – Eric Sep 20 '12 at 17:52
There may be another solution but a polygon measures the distance/area of the entire feature whereas the line just measures the segment. You might be able to incorporate it all into a model/script if you are feeling frisky, but being able to see segment changes on the fly without converting will probably be difficult. – Craig Sep 20 '12 at 18:00
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I'm sure someone, somewhere, has done this before using ArcObjects. However my search attempts turned up nothing, the most promising thing I found was this, but it's for 9.3 only so I can't test it: Drafting tools for ArcGIS 9.3

If you don't mind clicking a bit, you could use the measure tool (it can snap to vertices for better accuracy).

Edit: Here's some VBA code that might work: http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=993&t=101658

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