Create an area in the form of the minimum enclosing rectangle for each object, allowing the rectangle to be rotated as compared to the map window.
Given the two lines above, applying the Enclosing Rectangle operator creates the areas shown below. Note that since there are two lines, a minimum enclosing rectangle is created for each.
The Common Enclosing Rectangles transform operator is like Enclosing Rectangles, but creates one minimum enclosing rectangle for all objects in the scope.
In the example above the green areas were created with Enclosing Rectangles using the lines and the blue area was created with Common Enclosing Rectangle.
Tech Tip
Many transforms automatically run a Normalize Topology transform before running to eliminate common errors that may affect correct operation. The Enclosing Rectangles transform operator does not normalize target objects before running.