topic How to Export the Object Attributes in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

How to Export the Object Attributes

Solairajap — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:38:36 GMT

Hi Folks,

I am trying to export the model along with the object attributes that are associated.

I can achieve this when I export it to scene layer package because it allows me to export the Attribute metadata along with my model.

But while exporting it to fbx format, I couldn't able to achieve it. I googled it and i found a thread related to my issue and I came to know that we need to write python script. I couldn't able to understand what they are saying in that thread because I have 0 knowledge in programming (Don't know CGA also).

Ill attach my snips, please help me with this to write a code for this or help me to export the attribute data somehow.

I am new to city engine.

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to Export the Object Attributes

ThomasFuchs — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:37:32 GMT

Hello @Solairajap

Thank you for your question. FBX does not support object attributes. Therefore, you need to write out the object attributes to a separate file. Tutorial 12 describes shows how to use CGA report variables in combination with the Python-based exporter. It also works for Object attributes.

Tutorial 12: Scripted report export—ArcGIS CityEngine Resources | Documentation

Re: How to Export the Object Attributes

Solairajap — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:04:25 GMT

Hi Thomas ,

Thanks for the reply.I went through this thread already.Its little hard for me to break it down. Can you please give me example script exporting the object attributes. So i can follow it up.

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to Export the Object Attributes

ThomasFuchs — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 08:44:19 GMT

Hello @Solairajap
How-to-export object attributes is a quite common question. The community thread
Using Python to create an object attribute from a ... - Esri Community will hopefully help you.