ArcGlobe Label Troubles

Question

I am attempting to make a very simple ArcGlobe document, in which I have a layer with Florida's 67 counties as polygons. We have a field in the attribute table for the name of the county, and would like to label them with this name, draped flat over the surface. This procedure works just fine using the same layer in ArcMap, we just go to Properties -> Labels -> Label Features and set the field equal to name. This does not work in ArcGlobe however. We have attempted to enable labels, changed the settings in Globe Display and Globe General -> Feature Properties, and still the labels do not show. We are zoomed in close enough to meet the zoom criteria for visibility and label visibility, and there is plenty of space on the screen for labels.

We have already spent 6+ hours attempting this and have scoured the ESRI help and documentation, which was fairly unhelpful. Any ideas?

EricAntmann · Answer

Hello Tim, thanks for the note. I saw a couple of older forum posts mentioning converting to annotation, but I wasn't able to figure out how to do that. There are so few counties I would be fine manually annotating if that were necessary.

TimothyHales · Answer

Labels tend to be a bit of a challenge in ArcGlobe. Have you tried converting your labels to annotation in ArcMap, and then adding the annotation to ArcGlobe as a draped layer? You can open the Properties of the Annotation layer > Globe Display > uncheck Rasterize Feature Layer. This will create a floating label on the vector point layer.

Also, I have moved this discussion to the 3D‌ space from the ArcGIS Online space to see if anyone there can provide some additional information.