topic Re: Volume of a multipatch feature in 3D Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359838#M2191 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Had a look at this tool yesterday. I see it just adds columns automatically to the feature and calculates the selected variable(s).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>All well and good, but why is this not just part of the "Calculate geometry tool" on a column of the attribute table.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>That way I can add columns / data of my choice.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Perhaps this should be posted into "Ideas"....</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>N</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:59:29 GMT NeilAyres 2012-09-21T08:59:29Z Volume of a multipatch feature https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359835#M2188 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is this available anywhere.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When doing things like an intersect of 2 multipatches, I would have thought that the resulting volume is important.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But I can't seem to find a way to get at it.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I looked at the calculate geometry tool on the attribute table of the multipatch, but this only offers "Area", "Perimeter", "MinZ", "MaxZ" &amp;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the X, Y, Z centroid coordinates. In the context of a multipatch what, indeed, is "Area" anyway.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a Volume property accessible via the geometry object or something.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Many thanks in advance.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Neil</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:44:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359835#M2188 NeilAyres 2012-09-19T08:44:37Z Re: Volume of a multipatch feature https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359836#M2189 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Neil,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can run the </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00q90000005z000000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Add Z Information </A><SPAN>tool on the multipatch to get volume and surface area.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Eric</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:01:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359836#M2189 EricRice 2012-09-19T15:01:23Z Re: Volume of a multipatch feature https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359837#M2190 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I knew it had to be there somewhere.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thank you Eric.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:29:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359837#M2190 NeilAyres 2012-09-20T05:29:23Z Re: Volume of a multipatch feature https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359838#M2191 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Had a look at this tool yesterday. I see it just adds columns automatically to the feature and calculates the selected variable(s).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>All well and good, but why is this not just part of the "Calculate geometry tool" on a column of the attribute table.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>That way I can add columns / data of my choice.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Perhaps this should be posted into "Ideas"....</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>N</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:59:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359838#M2191 NeilAyres 2012-09-21T08:59:29Z Re: Volume of a multipatch feature https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359839#M2192 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This seems to only calculate surface area. Volume result is 0</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:55:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/volume-of-a-multipatch-feature/m-p/359839#M2192 JakubSisak 2019-10-22T16:55:24Z