topic Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map.. in 3D Mapping Questions

How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:50:10 GMT

Hi friends, am trying to display connections of pipeline which contains vertical & horizontal pipes in it... I have to connect both type of these pipes using URL of services....already able to display 3D vertical pipes below earth surface...

but am stuck at one point now..when am trying to display horizontal pipes cant able to display all of them..only few are displayed..

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions. I can explain more precisely.

Thank you in Advance

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:44:05 GMT

are you publishing these as 3D Object scene layers? If possible can you share the scene & layers? You can share them to a group and invite russell_jsapi to it.

Thanks!

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:37:15 GMT

Can you query the horizontal pipes to see that a geometry is being returned for those. How many features in the service are you trying to display?

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:09:20 GMT

You will have to edit your line vertices to go to the location x,y,z you want. You can do that in Pro: Modify feature vertices—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:12:37 GMT

Can you please elaborate.. I didn't get it...?

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:22:54 GMT

Sure,

Lets say your lines are made up of two points (vertices). Right now they only have an X and Y with no Z or a Z value of 0 or null. You need to modify these vertiices so you can get them at the correct depth. So for the example of the sloped line one Vertex will have a z value of -10 while the other end will have z value of -20. This will then show the pipe with the slope.

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:06:29 GMT

You'll need to to have features with geometry to draw pipes.

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:41:04 GMT

you will need the x and y values for the ends as well so You will have to pull that out of the feature that they are attaching too. You also will need to use Pro or Desktop to add those z values for the vertexes.

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:44:23 GMT

Hello russell, yes I managed to add Z values in feature...now am trying to use it.. Can you please tell me what to do exactly..

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:56:29 GMT

To create the polyline you will need to have the XYZ for the points, then run the Feature to 3D by Attribute tool to give you points a z value bc currently its just an attribute. Then Use the points to line to create the line feature and publish that has a feature layer and use the 3D tube symbol and bring it into your app.

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:04:31 GMT

Can we do it without ArcGIS pro..only using JS code.. I am not using PRO..

Do you think its not possible without PRO..

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RussRoberts — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:40:10 GMT

if you have your xyz for your lines you can create a graphic, but I would recommend using a feature layer for performance reasons and if you have a number of these features you could use Pro to convert them to multipatch and use a 3D Object scene layer.

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RalucaNicola1 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 07:18:06 GMT

1. What is your input data? Points?

2. Are you trying to create underground lines from given points?

As Russ said, as long as you have the point coordinates (even if z values are just in the attributes) and you know which points should be connected to create a line, then you can create the graphics client side (see this sample: ArcGIS API for JavaScript Sandbox)

The best would be to do this in ArcGIS Pro and publish it as a line feature layer. But seen the fact that you don't have ArcGIS Pro, then you can also do this in code on the client side (as long as you don't have too many lines, otherwise it might not be very performant).

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:59:03 GMT

Hi,

Input data= polylines

Yes, am trying to create underground 3D cylindrical pipes using the

polylines

I have a data as service url..

Thanks

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:24:15 GMT

Hi Raluca,

As I said, I have service URL which having Z values in it. For

confirmation, I tried to open it in ArcGIS Map and its working there..

now am having issue to bring it in using JavaScript and to connect it with

vertical pipes..

So it became a complete Pipeline system.

Thanks

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RalucaNicola1 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:45:17 GMT

ok, got it now. More questions:

so you have lines with z values for end points, but the z values are not correct? and you have the correct z values in the attributes? I'm afraid that is a workflow that you can only do with ArcGIS Pro.

However, the image that you showed above in the SceneViewer can be done with the API if this is what you are looking for.

In the API you can only use an offset per feature, so I don't think that helps, unless you know by how much you need to lower the horizontal pipes. This is a sample that shows how to do that: Elevation options | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.7

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

Rocky_ — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:58:28 GMT

Yes, I have Z values but not all correct...Yes am looking for how we embed the URL service with Z values.. I am able to embed it as it is.. only one horizontal layer, without Z value representation...

Thanks

Re: How to display horizontal pipes connected to vertical pipes below the earth surface on map..

RalucaNicola1 — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:37:34 GMT

A line has several z values, one for each vertex. That Arcade expression will not work for lines.

I assume you need to set new z values for each vertex on a line. You can't do that client-side, unless you recreate all the geometries, which is not optimal.

I would really recommend to correct the vertex z values in your desktop client (Pro or ArcMap, whatever you used to create the line geometry) and then to use the API only for visualization.

In case the feature service is editable, you could edit the z values using JavaScript by using applyEdits: FeatureLayer | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.7 Like this you can change z values, and the next time you will visualize the layer, the newly set z values will be used.