3D stacked chart symbology in ArcScene

[JonathanFleming]

I'm trying to render 3D stacked charts in ArcScene, but my layer disappears from the map when I do.  For example, I want to show population of different age groups (each feature is a county) as a stacked chart and then be able to turn the surface slightly on its side.  It appears that none of the chart symbology options work in arcscene.  Another thing this is useful for is to show an accumulation of events through groups of time (each time group could be a different color in the chart and the total hight is total number). 

Maybe this is working as designed (i.e., not supposed to work), but I haven't found anything about it in the help doc.

Thanks!

[PrasantaBhattarai]

Greetings!

Unfortunately, Stack Charts symbology are not yet supported in ArcScene. Here is an article with more information.

Thanks,
Prasanta.

[JessicaBarnabei]

Is this in the process of being fixed?  It would be nice to make maps like this http://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_create_this_visual_pseudo-3d_map_representation without having to buy and learn a graphics program.

[XanderBakker]

Is this in the process of being fixed?  It would be nice to make maps like this http://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_create_this_visual_pseudo-3d_map_representation without having to buy and learn a graphics program.

Hi Jessica (and Jonathan),

Not sure if this issue was fixed, but with the current functionality you can do some interesting visualizations too. For a project I wanted to show the spatial distribution of ammoniac emission by farm animals in the Netherlands and I choose to do this in ArcScene (10.1 at the time). This was the result (extracted from a presentation):

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What I had was 4 attribute columns with the emission values per square (2.5x2.5 km²). I added this layer 4 times to ArcScene (or copy and paste the layer in the TOC). For the first emission (species) set the Base Height to 0 and the Extrusion to the attribute value itself. For the second emission (species), set the Base Height to the first emission value and the Extrusion to the attribute value itself and so on. The last one starts (Base Height) at the sum of the other emissions...

BTW; I just tried to use the stack graph in 10.2 and the data still seems to disappear.

Kind regards,

Xander

[JessicaBarnabei]

Awesome idea Xander.  Thank you.  Although I only have 8 polygons to extrude over the whole USA.  So mine won't look as cool as yours.  Plus some of my polygons with small values are behind some with much larger values.  It would cover the stack. I could create a new polygon shapefile with just squares at the center of each large region, then just join the region $ data to each of these new polygons. Then extrude just this layer so as not to have anything overlapping.  And maybe extrude the regional polygons negatively so that it doesn't cover up the bar.  Or I could export the tilted map with the regions shaded to a 2D png/jpg and insert it into a PowerPoint slide and insert each 3D bar graph over the regions with the original excel file. Its easy for my purposes and looks pretty cool for not having an expensive graphics program.  I'll try both and see what goes over better with the boss.  Thanks again.

[XanderBakker]

Awesome idea Xander.  Thank you.  Although I only have 8 polygons to extrude over the whole USA.  So mine won't look as cool as yours.  Plus some of my polygons with small values are behind some with much larger values.  It would cover the stack. I could create a new polygon shapefile with just squares at the center of each large region, then just join the region $ data to each of these new polygons. Then extrude just this layer so as not to have anything overlapping.  And maybe extrude the regional polygons negatively so that it doesn't cover up the bar.  Or I could export the tilted map with the regions shaded to a 2D png/jpg and insert it into a PowerPoint slide and insert each 3D bar graph over the regions with the original excel file. Its easy for my purposes and looks pretty cool for not having an expensive graphics program.  I'll try both and see what goes over better with the boss.  Thanks again.

Hi Jessica,

You have enough creative ideas to make this work.
Maybe you could share the result on this forum to inspire others ...

Kind regards,

Xander

[DavidWasserman]

Hi Xander,

Thanks for sharing your work. I recently just wanted to add that I have been playing with procedural solutions for this problem using CityEngine/ArcGIS Pro. So if anyone revisits this forum, you can try the same thing in another context. I think with CGA the main benefit is control over the setbacks when you have a lot of contiguous geography, but even so the application might be limited. Just wanted to share the possibility.