Ability to clip a multipatch
I did try that function just to see and it didn't work, which makes sense because I don't know how it would know a way to create closed multipatches out of stuff like the image below (they represent geologic faults and surfaces):
Hello Anna,
I apologize for the late reply but better late than ever, I notice some discussion of some tunnel functionality of 3d data and the way I understand it, is that the you have 2 multipatches (cube & cylinder) and you would like to clip/slice one with another one with precision? Just to be clear because I believe there was some original confusion to understanding what you were trying to achieve.
First thing is the Slice Multipatch is the right tool that comes to mind to use here but, you probably also need to turn On the Snapping otherwise the precision placement of the plane will be very hard to do. As a side note they can also use the 3d grid and constraints to place them with even better precision and this will slice the feature or features correctly in its place see below:
Second thing is that you could also use Intersect 3D geoprocessing tool that will technically slice intersected feature with a combination of one simple feature or multiple feature and other options leaving you with a simple portion or portions of the intersected feature. Below is an example of the input feature and output feature when use in a simple configurations but it can be combined:
Rodney is right, there’s no simple way to achieve this straight out of the box but there might be some other ways to achieve the same goal, that is if I understood it correctly.
Thanks, Michael.
Hi Michael,
Funnily enough, I actually wasn't using a cube or a cylinder. I have open multipatches and there's nothing really to 'close' (which is why Intersect 3D doesn't work). Slice Multipatch does work but there's no way to slice in all the same places on 200 multipatches. I'm using mostly-vertical planar features (geologic faults, shown in grey from a bird's eye view) and and mostly-horizontal planar features (surfaces, shown multi-colored looking from a side view where the top of the image is up). I was hoping for the ability to get subsets of that data where I only have the features in a particular area (like within a state or within a specific county/region). Hopefully that explanation makes sense! Regardless, it seems like it just isn't possible based on what Rodney said.
Thanks,
Anna
We have the same request. We are trying to create a 3D local scene with the ocean floor and various geological subsurface layers in a hollow 3D cube cross section (see attached image). The idea is that the sides of the 3D cube is sliced into individual vertical sections from each intersection of the surface layers. Each side of the sliced multipatch are then represented with either different colors or textures for each layer section.
We have so far created a multipatch volume from an extrude polygon of the area using the 3D Analyst tool Layer 3D To Feature Class.
For each of our surface layers we have a raster layer, but we don't see a way to split or slice the multipatch this way. We have tried to create a multipatch line representing the raster domain boundary by using the 3D Analyst tool Raster Domain and then converted this to a multipatch (shown with the red line). But how to progress from here is uncertain and we don't see any tools for split or slice a multipatch from a multipatch with this kind of operation. The only tools seems to be Intersect 3D which requires the volumes we don't have or the Slice Multipatch, but this does not allow slice operations using other features nor slicing with curvature.
Perhaps we are missing some options here or are we limited with these?
