topic export shapes as xml? in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/export-shapes-as-xml/m-p/555812#M7500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have many thousands of lots/shapes i'd like to rename with meaningful names, as opposed to them all being called "Shape". (this becomes important when the generated models are exported)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I haven't found a way to set this with CGA.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>i tried </SPAN><PRE class="plain" name="code">set(initialShape.name, "blah")</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><SPAN>but it seems this does nothing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The lots have many attributes i'd like to keep, so i think i'd need to export them, rename them, and re-import.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Shp however is not human readable.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>DXF and OBJ both destroy the attributes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can anyone think of a workflow, or know how i can get shp as a human readable file?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:46:13 GMT JeremySmith5 2011-12-02T10:46:13Z export shapes as xml? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/export-shapes-as-xml/m-p/555812#M7500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have many thousands of lots/shapes i'd like to rename with meaningful names, as opposed to them all being called "Shape". (this becomes important when the generated models are exported)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I haven't found a way to set this with CGA.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>i tried </SPAN><PRE class="plain" name="code">set(initialShape.name, "blah")</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><SPAN>but it seems this does nothing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The lots have many attributes i'd like to keep, so i think i'd need to export them, rename them, and re-import.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Shp however is not human readable.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>DXF and OBJ both destroy the attributes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can anyone think of a workflow, or know how i can get shp as a human readable file?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:46:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/export-shapes-as-xml/m-p/555812#M7500 JeremySmith5 2011-12-02T10:46:13Z Re: export shapes as xml? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/export-shapes-as-xml/m-p/555813#M7501 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi !</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>which precise version of the CE are you using ?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:22:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/export-shapes-as-xml/m-p/555813#M7501 MatthiasBuehler1 2011-12-07T13:22:57Z