Export 3D objects with variable offset

vojtastic_p — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:53:24 GMT

I often want to export 3D objects from ArcGIS Pro to other software. In recent years ArcGIS Pro has made great progress in this area (thanks a lot!). I use the "Export 3D Objects" or "Add 3D Formats To Multipatch" tool and the OBJ format. These tools create for each object an OBJ file and a JSON file with attributes and coordinate offset values (thanks for the attributes, that helps a lot too).

But the problem is that the offset values are different for each object, so when importing objects in bulk into other software (Blender, etc) they all appear in the same place (at the axes origin).

Now for the idea/request for a new feature in ArcGIS Pro - I'd like to have a new parameter in the "Export 3D Objects" GP Tool with the option to set custom XYZ values for "constant offset for all features" of the exported geometry. That would mean all the exported objects would have the same values of the origin offset.

Possibly, I would be able to input values of 0, 0, 0 and get the "absolute coordinates" written directly in the OBJ file (or other formats). This way, the objects would be finally importable to an external software as in the picture above...

Is this something worth developing? It would be very helpful to me (for visualizations in external software, 3D printing, etc.).

Regards
V.

also found another idea for the same GP Tool HERE

also an Esri Blog feature doing a similar thing on the web HERE

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Export 3D objects with variable offset