(Exporting complex and unclosed multipatches to Sketchup ready file types does not work)Īs for exporting TIN to Sketchup surfaces, this is no longer possible. Turning shading mode to flat shading improves the rendering. (see above) By default multipatch shading mode is turn to smooth shading. Since I've posted this question I found out why the rendering of the multipatch created from complex TIN surfaces renders this way on screen. I know people (myself included) have been asking similar questions but I still don't seem to be able to do this. I could overcome this by exporting 'bounding box' features with each DXF but still - cumbersome.

Of course the data is not referenced so every imported DXF is placed in the default 0,0,0 position. The Interpolate Polygon to Multipatch using TIN as input surface yields a result that looks nothing like the input surface:Īs for line and point features it is possible to export to DXF 2007 then import into sketchup. Has anyone tried to export complex TIN surface to Sketchup with the Collada technique? (No direct TIN export functionality now) In fact it even opened SketchUp and loaded everything in and smoothed the surface if the check-mark was ticked off. I respectfully disagree Up until ArcGIS 9.3.1 it was a simple point and click operation (using the plugin) to select surfaces and whatever layers or selected features in the plugin and export. At ArcGIS10, this work-flow becomes much easier.' 'Up until now this was a pretty cumbersome process. Gone are the days when I was able to export TIN to Sketchup and easily export polygons, polylines and points with the ArcGIS plugin.ĮSRI seems to think the process is a lot easier now. (Does not need to retain spatial reference)

What are the steps required to successfully export an entire 3D model (composed of TIN surfaces, 3D polygons, 3D polylines and 3D points) from ArcGIS 10 to Sketchup 8? Preferably, I would like the various components to line up.

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