Drawing a buffer
A buffer is an area that includes all points within a specific distance of another location (or range of locations) on a map. A buffer is useful for proximity analysis, or to define a search area.
About this task
You can select one or several map items to use as the locations around which to draw a buffer. When you select several items, Analyst's Notebook Connector for Esri starts by calculating a buffer around each item, and then takes the union of intersecting buffers. The resulting shape behaves like a single piece. Even if some of the buffers are displayed separately on the map, you cannot select them individually.
Procedure
To draw a buffer around one or more map items: