There will be many occasions when you will need to use the output of one tool as input to another tool. This is called tool chaining. An example of tool chaining could involve buffering a stream
layer and then finding all residential properties that fall within the buffer. In this case, the Buffer
tool would output a new layer, which would then be used as an input to the Select by Location
tool or one of the other overlay tools. In this recipe, you will learn how to obtain the output of a tool and use it as input to another tool.
The Buffer
tool creates an output feature class from an input feature layer using a specified distance. This output feature class can be stored in a variable, which can then be used as an input to another tool, such as the Select Layer by Location tool. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the output from the Buffer
tool as an input to the Select Layer by Location tool to find schools that are...