topic Distribute points on building facades in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/distribute-points-on-building-facades/m-p/592048#M33472 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello everyone,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>does somebody know a way to distribute points over building facades in ArcGIS similiar to the intervisibility 3D Analyst / CityEngine demo that you should find here: </SPAN><A href="http://video.esri.com/watch/1662/3d-analyst-feature-and-volumetric-analysis?">http://video.esri.com/watch/1662/3d-analyst-feature-and-volumetric-analysis?</A><SPAN> (Because the site was not reachable when i wrote the message, i am not sure if the link is correct.)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In the demo they use CityEngine to generate these sample points. I tried to do the same by importing my shape file into CityEngine but i didn't find the panel option in the inspector. (maybe pretty naive but i dont know much about CityEngine :D)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My best idea is to do several intersections with rectangles with different z values to get line features representing the outline of the building on different heights. Then i use the generate random points tool with a high max points parameter to generate nearly evenly distributed points on the lines. (I cant get it to work in ModelBuilder though because of a problem with the the "Layer 3D to Feature Class" tool when running it on a layer that was not added to the display before. For this, I will probably open another thread.)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone have some ideas?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for every answer.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:00:05 GMT GeorgZweyer 2014-07-02T12:00:05Z Distribute points on building facades https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/distribute-points-on-building-facades/m-p/592048#M33472 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello everyone,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>does somebody know a way to distribute points over building facades in ArcGIS similiar to the intervisibility 3D Analyst / CityEngine demo that you should find here: </SPAN><A href="http://video.esri.com/watch/1662/3d-analyst-feature-and-volumetric-analysis?">http://video.esri.com/watch/1662/3d-analyst-feature-and-volumetric-analysis?</A><SPAN> (Because the site was not reachable when i wrote the message, i am not sure if the link is correct.)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In the demo they use CityEngine to generate these sample points. I tried to do the same by importing my shape file into CityEngine but i didn't find the panel option in the inspector. (maybe pretty naive but i dont know much about CityEngine :D)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My best idea is to do several intersections with rectangles with different z values to get line features representing the outline of the building on different heights. Then i use the generate random points tool with a high max points parameter to generate nearly evenly distributed points on the lines. (I cant get it to work in ModelBuilder though because of a problem with the the "Layer 3D to Feature Class" tool when running it on a layer that was not added to the display before. For this, I will probably open another thread.)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone have some ideas?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for every answer.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:00:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/distribute-points-on-building-facades/m-p/592048#M33472 GeorgZweyer 2014-07-02T12:00:05Z