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Marcel
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The only way we found to get a triangular mesh with existing topology into ArcGIS was to use the arcpy.LandXMLToTin_3d function. It's a bit crazy to have to write out a LandXML file just to get your TIN into Arc, but it works. Here is a Python Toolbox for ArcGIS10.1 that accesses data on a triangular mesh from an ocean model, and brings it into ArcGIS as a TIN. https://github.com/rsignell-usgs/dap2arc/blob/master/dap2tin.pyt We've: dap2tin.pyt

We've let ESRI know that a great enhancement would be to be able to instantiate a TIN directly using arcpy.

The only way we found to get a triangular mesh with existing topology into ArcGIS was to use the arcpy.LandXMLToTin_3d function. It's a bit crazy to have to write out a LandXML file just to get your TIN into Arc, but it works. Here is a Python Toolbox for ArcGIS10.1 that accesses data on a triangular mesh from an ocean model, and brings it into ArcGIS as a TIN. https://github.com/rsignell-usgs/dap2arc/blob/master/dap2tin.pyt We've let ESRI know that a great enhancement would be to be able to instantiate a TIN directly using arcpy.

The only way we found to get a triangular mesh with existing topology into ArcGIS was to use the arcpy.LandXMLToTin_3d function. It's a bit crazy to have to write out a LandXML file just to get your TIN into Arc, but it works. Here is a Python Toolbox for ArcGIS10.1 that accesses data on a triangular mesh from an ocean model, and brings it into ArcGIS as a TIN: dap2tin.pyt

We've let ESRI know that a great enhancement would be to be able to instantiate a TIN directly using arcpy.

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The only way we found to get a triangular mesh with existing topology into ArcGIS was to use the arcpy.LandXMLToTin_3d function. It's a bit crazy to have to write out a LandXML file just to get your TIN into Arc, but it works. Here is a Python Toolbox for ArcGIS10.1 that accesses data on a triangular mesh from an ocean model, and brings it into ArcGIS as a TIN. https://github.com/rsignell-usgs/dap2arc/blob/master/dap2tin.pyt We've let ESRI know that a great enhancement would be to be able to instantiate a TIN directly using arcpy.