idea ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping

DrewThompson2 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:36:53 GMT

Update ArcScene to include the ability to share map packages (scene packages) and develop an arcpy.mapping module that works with .sxd documents.

Re: ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping

MarkBeaty2 — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:40:11 GMT

This option would be soooo nice to have. I have a python script that applies a single symbology from a layer file to multiple layers in the TOC. This would be especially helpful in arc scene.

Re: ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping

HaraldEriksen — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:33:04 GMT

Yes it would be very nice to be able to use Arcpy.mapping with ArcScene (.sxd) documents.

Re: ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping

MarcGraham1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:35:13 GMT

What is the status of this? I see that ESRI has been aware of it since 2011.

Re: ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping

balajiVaddadi — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 01:54:54 GMT

How to work with arcpy in scene document

Re: ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping

TimGulden — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:00:08 GMT

I want to make an animated gif of 107 years of data using 3D visualization in ArcScene. I generated the 107 grid layers with arcpy, ArcMAP and Spatial Analyst -- took just over a day, but completely unattended. It should be trivial to render the layers and dump them out so that I can stitch them together into an animated gif -- but without scripting ability, I am looking days of tedium.

Re: ArcScene Map Packages and Arcpy.mapping - Status changed to: Closed

ValeriaChavez — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:23:01 GMT

Hi @DrewThompson2 ,

ArcGIS Desktop, which includes ArcScene, is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026 so we won’t be considering this idea. We recommend that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro, our fully supported desktop GIS application.

Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas. We truly appreciate your contributions to continuously improving the software to help you do your work and look forward to what ideas you have for ArcGIS Pro.