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Buffer Tool

The Buffer tool takes any polygon or polyline spatial object and expands or contracts its extents by a user specified value.

This image shows a positive buffer of 1 mile and a negative buffer of -1 mile.

Configure the tool

Specify the Spatial Field that contains the spatial object to be buffered.

User can choose whether or not to include the original spatial object in the output stream. The default is unchecked so the object is not included.

Generalize to 1% of Buffer size: Selected by default. This optimizes speed by cutting down the number of nodes in the buffered object.

Set the BufferSize parameters.

Specific Value: User can input a numerical value and all records will be buffered to this size
From Field: User can select a numerical field in the connection stream and each record is buffered by the value of that field.
Units: User can choose to buffer the object in units of Miles or Kilometers