topic How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end. in ArcGIS Pro Questions

How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

KevinFreibott — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:07:50 GMT

I'm using the Extrusion feature under "feature layer"- "appearance" to extrude points to a specific height based on a value within their attributes. Specifically, I have a range of points representing parking lots and I want to extrude each to a height based on the number of parking spaces. However, when I do this the resulting shape has no "cap" on it. They're essentially 3D pipes with no roof. Is there a setting I'm missing that will cap these "pipes" so they have a surface at the top end?

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:20:07 GMT

Extrude features to 3D symbology—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

apparently not....

Extrude points
Point and multipoint features become hollow vertical columns when extruded, regardless of the point symbol applied. Extrusion is a good way to highlight locations in 3D. You can extrude points based on an attribute to create columns of different lengths to visually represent variability in the data.

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

Scott_Harris — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 22:48:36 GMT

Try this...

Save a copy of your current layer (in case you want to revert the changes you make).
Change the symbology to a 3D Standing Cylinder (this will have a cap).
Turn off the extrusion.
Set symbology to "Vary symbology by attribute" - Scale-based symbol sizing—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop
Under Size, uncheck "Maintain aspect ratio"
For the Height property, set this to your number of parking spaces field.
Adjust the "Enable size range" parameter until you have it sized like you want.

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

KevinFreibott — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:25:28 GMT

Are you saying that there's no way to cap the extrusion?

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

KevinFreibott — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:25:48 GMT

Please tell me how to do step 2. I can't find a setting for that.

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:33:41 GMT

not out of the box...

but the workaround... click on your current symbol, then get into 3d

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

StephenRead — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:31:51 GMT

Thanks - that's useful.

It would be great to be able to combine graduated colours as well as varying symbology by attribute so that the result would be data colour coded as well as variably sized/extruded.

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

Snyders_Scott — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:49:23 GMT

I need a different answer to this question. I want subsurface water valves represented as a solid point not a line or column but cannot figure out how to do so. I can get them to go below the surface, I just can't figure out how to symbolize as a point. I'm obviously missing something.
Any help would be appreciated.

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

StephenRead — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 03:03:57 GMT

Hi Scott

Here's a method that works for me.

Look at the Properties for the point feature class and click on the Elevation tab and set 'Features are' At an absolute height and either tick Geometry z-values (if your feature class is 3D already) or tick 'A field' and specify your elevation/depth field (this is shown in the clip below). Note that you need to have the feature class in the 3D Layers section of the scene contents or they won't show in 3D.

I hope this helps.

Stephen

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

James_Wadsworth — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:59:45 GMT

Hi Scott,

Is there any similar workflow to resolve this issue in a Local or Global Scene? The workaround you have suggested is only viable in 2D maps, as scale-based symbol sizing is disabled in any scene view.

Thanks!

Edit:

I found an ESRI Help article that resolves this issue in any scene view: Problem: Point features become hollow vertical columns when extruded in ArcGIS Pro

Re: How to show extruded points as solid shapes and not "hoops" or "pipes" with no end.

Scott_Harris — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:18:24 GMT

Hi James,

Yes, that Support article seems to match the steps I posted originally . Glad you got it working.

-Scott