topic Re: ARCSCENE in 3D Questions

ARCSCENE

ElvinAsgerov — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:37:12 GMT

ARCSCENE 10.-3D ETIDOR-REPLACE WITH MODEL IS NOT ACTIVE... WHAT I MUST DO??PLEASE HELP ME

Re: ARCSCENE

TarunJaiswal — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:41:25 GMT

Greetings!

According to the help documentation

To enable the Replace With Model you must have the following:

    1) An active edit session
    2) At least one multipatch feature layer in your document
    3) Selected at least one multipatch feature

Please check to make sure you have fulfilled these conditions.

Hope this help.

Thank you.

Re: ARCSCENE

ElvinAsgerov — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:24:18 GMT

have anyone got google sketch up pro?

Re: ARCSCENE

JakubSisak — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:17:59 GMT

have anyone got google sketch up pro?

The replace model should work fine so long you have fulfilled the conditions outlined by @Tarun_Jaiswal.

There might a problem with your SketchUp model. Perhaps it is too complex? As for SketchUp Pro, there is no difference between SketchUp Pro and Standard free version in the ESRI-SketchUp workflow.

I recommend you try the recommended workflow whereby you starting point of ArcGIS data, building footprints for example. Extrude a simple footprint - convert to "CLOSED" multipatch - export to Collada - import to SketchUp - make simple 3D modifications making sure to close all faces - save skp model - back in ArcScene replace model

It is essential you close all faces in SketchUp and keep the model simple. There are a number of SketchUp plugins that are used for model validation. Once all faces have bee closed and the model is valid you should have no problems. I also had some success using fairly complex sketchup modes as 3D symbols then scaling and rotating them as needed but I would only recomened this technique is you are placing random 3D object into your scene.