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Shapefiles not aligning with terrain in CityEngine?

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10-31-2014 03:04 PM
KathrynAngleton
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I have just started a new project in CE. Prior to CE, I had made a shapefile of the river included in my terrain. I digitized it using an ortho of the area I'm trying to render in CE. I know for a fact the river shapefile, the DEM, and the orthos are all the same coordinate system and projections. However, after importing the terrain file into CE, when I tried to import the river shapefile, it appeared completely out of frame of the terrain. Anybody have any ideas as to what's going on?

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DanPatterson_Retired
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You are saying that you checked in arccatalog or the projection itself?

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KathrynAngleton
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When I made it in ArcCatalogue, I know I used the same projections (NAD 1983 HARN (US FEET) State Plane (Florida West)) for the shapefile as I did for the ortho and DEM. I also double checked. And they are the same. I can't even "zoom to extent" (obviously since that does not exist in CE) to see just how far off they are, but my guess is they are very far apart.

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DanPatterson_Retired
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well, if you add the shapefile to a separate data frame in arcmap and the image/dem into another data frame you will be able to inspect the coordinates to see if they make sense....don't know about how you check coordinates in CE

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