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Have you ever created a building model using ArcMap? I'm confused as to why you would choose any of the ArcGIS products for this application, as it was designed for geographic data, not 3D modelling of structures.
Google Sketchup is very easy to learn and there are some very good tutorials on their website and on YouTube - I'd highly recommend it and would ...
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I have made the experience that the problem can not always be solved completely. But if you use layer's drawing priority, it gets better. Please try to use the layer's drawing priority:
In ArcScene you can change the drawing priority of each of the layers
being displayed, so the more important layers will render on top of
the less important layers. ...
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You've got a projection issue. Chances are you've not specified the projection of the DEM correctly.
There are typically two indicators to this and you have both:
You have spikes.
You have a cell size that looks like: 0.000278 (it should be a whole number).
So make sure you've set the correct projection for the DEM as well as the drape (if memory serves, ...
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There is some VB code on EDN
"This tool contains a toolbar providing functionality to create text labels in the 3D environment of ArcScene. The text and location of the labels of the toolbar can be originated from features in a layer, as well as by user defined positions via mouse clicks. Dialogs are provided to allow the modification of the rotation, ...
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The easiest way I know to do this is to digitize a path around the object in question in ArcScene (make sure your polyline contains z-values), then select this path and use the animations toolbar to create a flyby from path. When you do this, you should have your screen centered on the object you want to focus on. Right click on the object and select "Set ...
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Since for feature renderers, it is the property page that is registered so that it appears in the UI (renderers themselves are not registered), your best bet is to implement your own property page and relay all (or most) of its calls to an GraduatedColorPropertyPage instance. This class is the property page for class breaks renderers.
Now, for the feature ...
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As Craig says, OpenGL is the way to go for 3D.
See Creating an ArcGIS Engine Application With C-Sharp and OpenGL. Earlier versions of ArcGIS Explorer also supported OpenGL calls, but last time I checked Esri no longer supports it.
I don't know why they did this - OpenGL drawing really helped differentiate AGX from Google Earth.
Update
Even if your ...
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How did you drape the vectors? I think you need to set the Base Heights. To do so:
Right click the vector data layer and select Properties.
Click the Base Heights tab.
Select the radial button beside Obtain heights for layer from surface. The program automatically selects the DEM open in ArcScene.
Click Apply, then move to the Extrusion tab.
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When you downloaded the data what format did it come in? By definition, if the data is a raster format, it can be considered 3D data, as it has a x,y,z value. If you are looking to have it extruded in ArcScene then you will want to do a few of the following things.
Assuming your data is in a usable raster format (ie: GeoTiff) then you will want to do the ...
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You'll need the Quicktime codecs.
You can either download and install quicktime from Apple.
Or if you don't want all the junk that Apple bundle together, there's the QuickTime Alternative - though there's no guaranteeing that ArcGIS will pick that up.
(See also, very bottom of - ...
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Have you tried subtracting the depth values from the DEM surface values? This should give you elevation values that are in correct relation to the surface. You can then use these values as your TIN nodes. Whatever the solution, I'm definitely interested to hear what comes up. It sounds like an interesting project.
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Thanks to a helpful staff from esri I was able to solve the Problem with a workaround:
Using a polygon which is slightly smaller produces a multipatch which does not have a dip. In addition I figured out that the point position from the nodes for both tins should be at the same x,y position to get good results of the extrusion.
The Bug is listed at ...
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I used to export 3D scenes a lot from ArcScene and I usually found the ArcScene did a pretty good job of creating the VRML. However, I would sometimes encounter similar problems with one viewer but not in another one, depending on how strictly the programmers had implemented the VRML specification for a given viewer.
The problem will most likely lie not ...
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I am not aware of this tool, and cannot find much mention of it outside the whitepaper you linked to. I think it is a proprietary toolbar, which may or may not be available for commercial use.
This type of operation is often performed using FME, which has been improved in recent years to allow the creation of 3D buildings with different shapes, styles and ...
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There is the Subsurface Analyst toolset, part of the Arc Hydro Groundwater toolbox. It allows to build 3D GeoVolumes and visualize them in ArcScene (see video).
Another way to create 3D geological solid is decribed in this paper, requiring XTools Pro.
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i wonder that do you have quicktime installed on your machine? maybe ArcScene cant communicate without quicktime..
i guess that i have encountered such a problem in the adobe after effects too. you can try to use QuickTime Alternative 3.2.2 here.
i hope it helps you...
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The uncompressed AVI output was quite jerky
There's a very good chance this has nothing to do with the quality of the video itself but that it is uncompressed. Uncompressed video is very large and I'd guess your computer simply isn't capable of reading it from the drive fast enough to be able to render it properly. A simple 1280*720 requires about 530 ...
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For a single house model, you are better off using Sketchup. But if you want to know about ArcScene and Sketchup in workflow, there are a couple of posts which both point to the same YouTube videos.
ESRI's 3D blog: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/3dgis/archive/2010/10/25/ArcGIS-to-SketchUp-and-back.aspx
Official Sketchup blog: ...
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If the model is a multipatch, you could try converting it to Collada using Multipatch To Collada (Conversion). You could then view it in a number of different free software such as Google Earth.
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To have buildings extrude at different height values you could create a new building height elevation field (within your building polygon feature class) and then use the arcgis.rand() field calculation Python option. It will generate a random decimal number that you could multiply by 10, 20, 100, etc. Then you could use this field to indicate building ...
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2D display (IDisplay) does not support drawing multipatches directly. You'll need to covert them to footprints (see IMultipatch::XYFootprint for how to extract the footprint). If you want a 2D rendering of the multipatch textures you'll need to create an image from a 2D projection of the multipatch and draw that.
For 3D, you should be able to just return ...
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I wrote a previous answer, suggesting a way of doing this, which I updated with a great suggestion from @whuber:
You need to convert your polygons into rasters (make sure that you set the raster extents to be sufficiently large that they include all of the polygons). When converting poygons to rasters, you can choose what the raster value is. One easy ...
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With your 3D point layer, add an additional numeric coded field that represents each subsoil type (e.g. subsoil A = 1, subsoil B = 2, subsoil C = 3...etc). Then use one of the 3D Analyst>Interpolate to Raster tools to interpolate that coded subsoil field. Next, run the same interpolation tool on your Z value field (I'm guessing this field has negative ...
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I would guess that your layer is not a 3D layer. You can check your layer attribute table. If the Shape field just says "Point" for each record you just have a 2D layer. You can use the 3D Analyst>Convert>Features to 3D tool to make your layer 3D. Once you have done that, open the table and look at the Shape field. It should now say "Point ZM", and the ...
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