I am seeking to divide this 200 acre polygon into 5 polygons of 40 acres. I have yet to find a concrete solution to this task by searching this forum. Is there a pragmatic tool in existence that can help accomplish this task? I am using ArcGIS 10.5. I have attempted the fishnet tool but all that accomplished was create a grid. Another suggestion I found (The Parcel Editor toolbar) is unavailable with my current license.
[GIS] How to divide irregular polygon into equal areas
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The most straight-forward way:
- Open QGIS and download the mmqgis extension via the plugin downloader
- Load in your shapes and set their projection as project CRS (rightclick)
- Go to mmqgis - create - create grid layer
- Define a grid with enough spacing for your polygons. Besides rectangles you could also define hexagons and stuff
- Now do a simple clip with the function in the vector menu to get equally spaced parts of your polygons. ( clip your generated grid with your polygons ). This will resolve in something like this
- Now you could join the attributes of your old shape and the new one to keep the attribute table. You could also conduct a Union instead of a Clip to keep the attributes, but this may require some post-processing of your shape depending on the surface structure.
You might try the Editor, Copy Parallel tool to create lines the same distance apart. This would be a Polyline feature class. The Advanced Editing Tool bar has Split Polygon tool. First, Select the lines overlapping your polygon, then execute the tool. Your Polygon will be cut by each line. The lines need to extend beyond the edges of your polygon.
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ArcGIS Pro has a tool called Subdivide Polygon (Data Management) that does what you are after. In this example, the polygon on the left is split into 5 equal parts and the 7 polygons on the right are split into 5 equal parts using the
STACKED_BLOCKSoption.