•Self intersection is usually a result of poor digitising.  They can be hard to spot if the intersection is very small.  Experience has shown that it is typically the misplacement of a single vertex. 


•A self-intersecting polyline can be corrected by entering edit mode and show the vertices (). You can right click on the incorrect vertex and delete or move it or use the tools on the Edit Vertices tool bar to correct it. RivEX has a tool that will auto-correct self intersections which is discussed here.


•In the example image below a single vertex is misplaced (red circle).  Delete vertex has been selected from the context menu. 


Deleting a vertex


•This tool generates an error log file called SelfIntersectingPolylines.txt