topic Re: Sharing a Scene in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Sharing a Scene

IonutAlixandroae — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:59:36 GMT

Hello,

I`m having quite a problem sharing a 3D Scene made in ArcGIS Pro.

I have some buildings ( polygon vector data) and some streets ( line vector data) under 3D Layers in Content; I have applied a procedural rule to those buildings to appear in 3D.

After that I shared the scene to my resources in ArcGIS Online and I had 2 warnings :

1. 24080 - Ensure scene is authored correctly before sharing

2. 24077 - Layre`s simbol will be downgraded

I ignored them I waited for my scene to be exported; When I opened the scene there were no 3D buildings, only the streets..

Do you know what those warnings mean? ( How should I author my scene) and why my buildings don`t appear in the scene in Online?

Thanks,

Ionut

Re: Sharing a Scene

JoanneParkinson — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:08:00 GMT

Hi Ionut,

All analyzers have an associated help topic. You can access it from the

Message tab by right-clicking on the analyzer result and clicking Help from the

context menu, or directly from the Help system.

Analyzer 24080 - Ensure scene is authored correctly before sharing - will
always appear when sharing a web scene. The help contains guidelines for how to
author a scene (Author a web scene—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS for Professionals).

The intention of this analyzer is to direct users to this help topic. It identifies what is and what
is not available in the first release.

Analyzer 24077 - Layer's symbol will be downgraded - will appear if a layer
in your map is using a symbol that is not supported. Procedural symbols are not currently supported and should be downgraded to simple polygons. I'm not sure why yours are not showing up when you view them online.

Can you try symbolize the polygons using simple symbols and try sharing your

web scene again?

Thanks,

Joanne

Re: Sharing a Scene

IonutAlixandroae — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:53:44 GMT

Hi Joanne,

I understand. But please, could you explain more clearly or give me some steps about how my buildings(polygon vectors ) to appear in 3D in the webscene( in arcgis online) ?; because I can`t figure it out , they keep getting flat and 2D. ( I tried to export when the buildings are extruded with a simple fill simbology, also when they have the "Z" attribute made by "Feature to 3D by attribute " tools , but I can`t manage to share them as 3D....

Thanks!

Ionut

Re: Sharing a Scene

IonutAlixandroae — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:12:05 GMT

And also,if I want to share my data as web layer, the option is gray, can not click it...what should I do, or what should I have so that option will be available?

Thanks!

Re: Sharing a Scene

JoanneParkinson — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:48:53 GMT

Hi Ionut,

You can't publish a 3D web layer (web scene layer) from ArcGIS Pro yet. The "Share As Web Layer" option is enabled if you right-click a layer in the 2D
category of your scene.

Joanne

Re: Sharing a Scene

JoanneParkinson — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:58:07 GMT

HI Ionut,

3D vector polygons will appear flattened in a web scene. Extrusion is not available with the beta release of web scenes.

Joanne

Re: Sharing a Scene

IonutAlixandroae — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:20:25 GMT

Hi Joanne,

Thank you for your answers!!

But if extruded polygons are not available in beta version, how are these buildings made in this scene ? ( Web Scene Viewer )

Thanks!

Ionut

Re: Sharing a Scene

NathanShephard — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:05:52 GMT

Hi Ionut,

The Content team here at Esri used an in-house / preliminary version of web scene publishing capabilities (that we plan to release with the next version of ArcGIS Server and Pro). We wanted to test publishing 3D objects - and give users an idea of what will be supported - which led to a set of publicly-hosted 3D services, including the one you linked to above. (Note: the link to our full set of example scenes is below).

- http://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?owner=esri_3d&title=Example%20Scenes‌

Sorry for the confusion. We're looking forward to letting users (like you) publish this kind of content, too, but weren't quite able to get it into Pro 1.0.

Thanks, Nathan.

Re: Sharing a Scene

IonutAlixandroae — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 07:06:07 GMT

Oh, I understand Thank you Nathan!! We`ll wait !

I can`t wait to be able to publish and share 3D scenes with that kind of content!

Thanks!

Ionut

Re: Sharing a Scene

Lars_ElmkærChwastek — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:20:21 GMT

Hi Nathan,

Do you have any idea of when this functionality will be available? 🙂

Thanks

Lars

Re: Sharing a Scene

NathanShephard — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 02:20:33 GMT

Hi Lars,

Yes, with ArcGIS Server 10.3.1 you will be able to host multipatch content as streaming 3D services. ArcGIS Pro 1.1 (coming out shortly after 10.3.1) will have a rich authoring and publishing user experience for multipatches, plus you will be able to publish and manage services directly from Portal.

Thanks, Nathan.

Re: Sharing a Scene

Lars_ElmkærChwastek — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:43:23 GMT

Hi Nathan,

Thank you for your answer, that sounds great and I can't wait! I have another question regarding sharing to a webscene. If I have a dataset with for instance Earthquake data, that has a depth, will I be able to share this as a webscene and see the data below the surface??

I've tried with the Northridge dataset, and the sharing goes through nicely. However, when I open the webscene in ArcGIS.com, it gives me an error with the URL for that specific earthquake layer...?

/Lars

Re: Sharing a Scene

NathanShephard — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:22:13 GMT

Hi Lars,

Unfortunately the current, streaming-service-driven web scene viewer does not allow you to navigate the camera underground. It's in our future dev plans...

However, all is not lost. You can use the (previously released) "CityEngine Web Scene" to do it. You can publish these from either ArcScene (using the 'Export to 3D Web Scene' GP tool) or from CityEngine. Both methods collate the data and symbology into a .3ws file that you can then host as an item online. When viewing this type of web scene, users are effectively downloading the file and viewing it from their local cache. It has the same advantages (no app download, no plugin, etc) as our next-generation web scene, though it is not recommended for large datasets because all the content has to be exported with the file.

Here's our "3D Minard's Map" example you can look at, where a section of the earth has been clipped out and shared as a CityEngine Web Scene (published from ArcScene):

- http://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/CEWebViewer/viewer.html?3dWebScene=2b48caaabd0e44028724c5f109f3de97

Thanks, Nathan.