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I am trying to convert vertical line (cross-section) features to the polygon, but all regular ArcGIS tools (e.g. Feature to Polygon) that I applied can't convert vertical lines to vertical polygons.

Do you know a tool that can do it automatically?

line feature that I need to convert to polygon

I also have point feature class with xyz coordinates of every pointpoints with xyz values

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  • I suppose you want to compute discharge with sub-section method. I would use each vertical as input taking account i + i+1 pair of points to create n polygons. If verticals are equal-spaced, create a set of vertical lines to split the dissolved polygon of image 1 – aldo_tapia Nov 30 '17 at 10:56
  • You should be able to do it using cursors (search/update/insertcursor, pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/data-access/…) and the shape tokens. That way you could read the Z values and write these as X or Y values. Will be a bit tricky though.. – BERA Nov 30 '17 at 11:26
  • @Fran: Are the points in the correct order or is the order ~random? – BERA Dec 2 '17 at 8:45
  • if the lines are equal in distance, you can create buffer on the vertical lines. – Amadeus Dec 4 '17 at 4:23
  • @BERA points are in correct order, spacing between points is 1 cm and every point has its own unique ID – Fran Dec 4 '17 at 10:15
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I have not done any testing, but from the documentation it sounds like ArcGIS 3D Analyst supports Creating a vertical line segment.

However, 3D polygon interiors present additional challenges so:

Completely vertical polygons are not supported in the geodatabase as they are flagged as zero-area polygons.

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