Flip Line (Editing)

Summary

Reverses the from-to direction of line features.

You can view the orientation of line features by symbolizing line features with arrowheads.

Usage

Syntax

FlipLine_edit (in_features)
ParameterExplanationData Type
in_features

The input feature class or layer. This must be Polyline.

Feature Layer

Code Sample

FlipLine Example(stand-alone script)

This example shows how to use Python stand-alone script to do in-place editing.

# Name: Flipline_Example.py
# Description: Flip line features
# Requirements: 
# Author: ESRI

import arcpy
from arcpy import env
env.workspace="C:/data"
inFeatures="harvestable.shp"
try:
    arcpy.FlipLine_edit(inFeatures)
except Exception, e:
    # If an error occurred, print line number and error message
    import traceback, sys
    tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
    print "Line %i" % tb.tb_lineno
    print e.message
FlipLine Example (Python interactive window)

Shows, within a Python interactive window, how to use Python command to flip line.

import arcpy
from arcpy import env
env.workspace="C:/data"
arcpy.FlipLine_edit("harvestable.shp")

Environments

Related Topics

Licensing Information

ArcView: No
ArcEditor: Yes
ArcInfo: Yes

4/27/2011