topic Simple Multipatch to XYZ Coordinates Question. in 3D Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/simple-multipatch-to-xyz-coordinates-question/m-p/195911#M1225 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Dear all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Apologies for this rather naive question, I have just begun looking into 3D and ArcScene and have a fairly simple question for you all.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am planning to write an algorithm for positioning solar panels on a roof which uses 3D coordinate geometry. Now, my 3D city data is in multipatch format, is there a way in Arc to export/extract the XYZ coordinates? If not, I was planning to use Oracle Spatial to calculate the geometry before carrying out the calculations.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best Regards,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Kelvin.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:46:34 GMT KelvinWong2 2012-06-28T15:46:34Z Simple Multipatch to XYZ Coordinates Question. https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/simple-multipatch-to-xyz-coordinates-question/m-p/195911#M1225 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Dear all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Apologies for this rather naive question, I have just begun looking into 3D and ArcScene and have a fairly simple question for you all.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am planning to write an algorithm for positioning solar panels on a roof which uses 3D coordinate geometry. Now, my 3D city data is in multipatch format, is there a way in Arc to export/extract the XYZ coordinates? If not, I was planning to use Oracle Spatial to calculate the geometry before carrying out the calculations.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best Regards,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Kelvin.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:46:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/simple-multipatch-to-xyz-coordinates-question/m-p/195911#M1225 KelvinWong2 2012-06-28T15:46:34Z Re: Simple Multipatch to XYZ Coordinates Question. https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/simple-multipatch-to-xyz-coordinates-question/m-p/195912#M1226 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You can harvest the Building footprints with the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00q90000001p000000">Multipatch Footprint</A><SPAN> tool.&nbsp; This tool also records the Z Min/Max so you should have an idea about the rooftop, provided the top is not too irregular.&nbsp; Otherwise you could try </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/java/details?entryID=2929E846-1422-2418-A0DD-16627D87B471">burning the buildings</A><SPAN> into a Raster DEM with this from the resource center.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:12:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/simple-multipatch-to-xyz-coordinates-question/m-p/195912#M1226 JeffreySwain 2012-06-29T10:12:44Z