Create terrain effect over shapefile polygon in ArcMap 10.4

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11-27-2019 03:16 PM
SlobodanKomatina2
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I have a Digital Elevation Model and polygon shapefile and I want to make an effect that polygons follow terrain structure according to DEM. If I just overlay it over DEM the polygon will be flat. I know how to do that in ArcScene, but I want to do that in ArcMap and not sure how. I have tried with Window\Image Analysis but without success.

I have attached one example from Google Maps where forest polygon follows terrain structure. 

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JuanSantos
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Hi Slobodan Komatina

 

I suggest the following for the polygons:

  

You can create a Tin again, add the polygon layer and add the shape containing the contours, in this shape, specify the column containing the elevations. After that configure the views of the polygons.

 

I leave you the captures as an example:

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SlobodanKomatina2
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This is amazing! Absolutely what I need...