Draw lines from points

Question

Please any body help me for creating lines from points in electric network for instance electric poles are there in point feature with "polename" field like "P01", "P02", "P03" etc. I need a tool that create lines on Target (Feature Class) from P01 to P02 then P02 to P03 in continue.

Answer 1

You could try Hawth's Tools 'Convert Locations to Paths' tool. Same concept.

Answer 2

This link points to an ArcScript on ESRI's website. It is a python script that looks like it was turned into the tool that @PolyGeo references in ArcGIS 10.

It requires that you have an ID field that links the points you want to convert to lines, so you will have the following:

Point Name ID
PO1 1
PO2 1
PO3 2
PO4 2
PO5 2

The key is that if you want PO1 to also appear in Line 2, you will have to repeat it in the shapefile like this: PO1 1
PO2 1
PO3 2
PO4 2
PO5 2
PO1 2

Here is the link to that ArcScript: Points to Lines

There used to be a script that took this a step further and used 2 files. The first was a point feature class like above, where each point had a unique identifier. The 2nd file was a table that defined the lines based on point id's: ID Start End
1 PO1 PO2
2 PO1 PO3
3 PO2 PO3
etc
I could not find the script for this one though, but it might give you a starting point.
Hope these help.

Answer 3

There's a Points To Line tool in ArcGIS 10 that may do what you want.