MultiPatch Triangles

Question

I have an ArcScene document which was created using an FME translation of an AutoCad 3D drawing. The arrangement of the geometries is awful - there are triangles which touch and are in the same plane but have been placed in different geometries.

I am using Ctype(pFeature.ShapeCopy, IGeometryCollection) to break up the multipatch.

I would like to be able to break the multipatch into it's individual triangles and reassemble them in some kind of logical order. If I break it into it's geometries then most of them contain more than one triangle.

Can anyone tell me how I can break the geometries into their individual triangles?

Thanks,

NavJohn

sirishb · Answer

Hi John,

Sorry for the late reply to this.

Thank you very much. It works.

Thanks

Sirish

JohnMcGlynn · Answer

Hi SIrish,

Sorry for the delay on this.

The point collection of the multipatch can be found by creating a new IPointCollection4 and then looping through the geometries and typing each geometry to the pointcollection.

for (int i = 0; i < multiPatchGeometryCollection.GeometryCount; i++)

{

//here i want to know each geomteries Triangles count and it vertices

pPtColl = new Ring;

pGeom = multiPatchGeometryCollection.Geometry(i);

pPtColl = (IPointCollection4)pGeom;

// Cycle through the points pPtColl

}

sirishb · Answer

Hi John,

Did you find any solution. I am also looking for this. I have posted similar kind of question here...and unfortunately no replies from ESRI.

here is my question..

https://community.esri.com/message/420864#420864

Thanks,

Sirish