Latest Contributions by NathanShephard

Ha, always working, always working. The list of equiv items is shrinking, so we really appreciate it when particular ideas continue to get votes and additional workflow descriptions (so we can prioritize).  Thanks for all the input! -Nathan. ... View more

Thanks for the interest in this capability.  Question for the group - if there was an option to include the on-screen Navigator control (when exporting images and animation-videos) would that meet your needs? The biggest caveat would be "the appearance and styling of the north arrow overlay would not be configurable" (which matches the 10.x ArcScene case).  We'd clear out all the 'controls and buttons' so it'd just be the actual direction indicator. Example - the north-only indicator, vs the full 3D indicator styling.         Thanks, -Nathan. ... View more

Excellent!  Hope it helps! -Nathan. ... View more

Unfortunately I'm not sure why you're experiencing this export problem.  😞  The only other ideas that come to mind are things like delays or time-outs in service layers, or some kind of network accessibility problem.  If it's at all possible, it would be great if you could log a bug with Esri Support (with your animation / map package) so the dev team can test it in debug mode and see if that helps us figure out what is going wrong.  Agreed that piecemeal export is a workaround, and that single export would be a much better result. -Nathan. ... View more

Hi @Simonez - the tool will only be listed if you have elevation content in the map (or scene). To add an elevation source (eg: raster DEM or a TIN), expand the 'Add Data' control on the Map ribbon and choose the 'Elevation Source Layer' option. You'll then get a 'Ground' section listed in your Contents pane, and can add more data sources to it (if needed) - eg: multiple DEMs covering your area of interest. More info is in the "Add a ground surface to a map" section on this page: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/properties/elevation-surfaces.htm  Thanks, -Nathan. ... View more

Sure. It's on the 'Source' tab of the Layer Properties dialog. ... View more

Rebuilding the whole map (or whole project) would definitely be painful. I don't know why that map is no longer working well for you --> "ghosts in the machine". 😞 Sometimes similar results (ie: getting a map or layer to work again) can be achieved with annoying-but-less-time-consuming trick like resetting the data source for the layer(s) that are failing. You may have already tried deleting your cache. Sometimes I'll go big on that one and manually delete the contents of the C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\ESRI\Local Caches folder. ... View more

Hi all, There are a number of ideas on this page, which is great. I wanted to see if you'd had a chance to try the new interactive Elevation Profile tool in ArcGIS Pro, to see if some of your workflows can be met. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/exploratory-analysis/interactive-elevation-profile-basics.htm Quick summary of requests: Multi-surface support - not yet, but planned for a future release of Pro (ie: 3.1 or later) Vertical exaggeration - you can resize the chart size display (as an image), or export the display to a line feature or table (GDB or CSV) and create a Chart object directly Export as data (with distance-along axis values) - supported Show other vector features on profile line - not yet, but planned for a future release (3.1 or later) Ability to edit the profile line - supported (by editing the in-scene graphic reference line) Full control over appearance - supported (limited set of properties for the displayed graph, per below image, and full control by exporting to a data table and creating a Chart) Stacked profile graphs - not yet, but planned for a future release (3.1 or later), that will work on multiple surfaces in the scene (eg: geological strata) as well as 'top-most-hit-objects' (eg: the skyline of a city from the buildings) Pipeline graph case - potentially supported, because you can select many features and we will (in memory) attempt to collapse them to a single connected line for the profile graph. It won't support multi disconnected lines, though. Export to DWG/DXG - not supported, no plans at this time. Could potentially be handled by exporting to a 3D line feature first. Adding more than one dataset - not sure... is this similar to #7? Work fast / dynamically - yes, it pulls the max-resolution data from the elevation data sources that contribute to the Ground surface Set of cross sections - not supported yet, assuming similar to #7? If yes, then planned for future. Screenshot of profile graph display options (per #6) I hope this helps get you started on evaluating the interactive profile graph in Pro! Thanks, Nathan. ... View more

Hi Susan (et al), Thanks for submitting and voting for this idea. I realize it's an old one, so I am adding some information about how the interactive profile graph works in ArcGIS Pro, to see if this meets your needs. The interactive profile graph creates an in-scene graphic line - either from a newly digitized line, or by copying the geometry from an existing line feature. Editing that (graphic) line will update the profile graph... but... it does NOT maintain a reference to the feature it was initially pulled from. We don't maintain the link because there are many possible edits that could be done to the original source line (eg: add vertices, delete vertices, split feature, delete feature, etc), so rather than tracking all the possible changes that can happen, the recommended workflow is to keep the feature-you-want-the-profile-graph-built-from as SELECTED, and then click the 'Apply' button (as-needed) to update it, per the 19-sec mark of the above video. Can this workflow work for your needs? It's an extra click (to reload the elevation profile again), but it gives you full control as to WHEN the graph updates. Thanks, Nathan. ... View more

Hi Dean, I reviewed the Help documentation and it's clear we need to do a better job describing the current behavior of the measure tool units. Below is a more detailed attempt at that. The current approach of “imperial” and “metric” is designed for general (casual) usage. The units change automatically within the “family” of units based on what’s good for the length/area you’re looking at, so you don’t have to keep manually changing the unit to get understandable values as you zoom in and out. For example, using Imperial: …you zoom in to measure the width of a road --> “38 feet” …then you zoom out to measure LA to San Fran --> “430 miles” …without having to change the units yourself. The default measure unit mode is always either Imperial or Metric, and it uses the appropriate default-unit in the backstage (Project – Options – Units) to choose which ‘family’ you get. For measure-distance tool, we look at the default Distance Units, and for the measure-area tool we look at the default Area Unit (so you can, for example, have Imperial distance and Metric area). Example - default distance unit of feet means 'Imperial' mode will be used for measure distances. If you change the Measure tool to a specific unit in the screen-overlay control (eg: Kilometer for distance and Hectares for areas), we remember and use that exact-unit for that view for the lifetime of the Pro app session, but it is not stored when saving/re-opening the app. We talked with the Parcels team and can see the benefit of storing an exact-default-unit for the Measure tool, so we'll add it to our list for inclusion in a future release.  Thanks for providing the feedback! -Nathan. ... View more

Thanks all! We added this capability into the core UI for ArcGIS Pro 2.6. To access the Field of view value for a 3D scene, right-click in the scene and enable the 'Camera' overlay control. You can set the angle value to a number between 0.1 and 170 degrees.  It is also accessible via the API, and is stored/honored in keyframes when you create an animation video (so you can better match real camera zooms, or, for example, mock up a dolly-zoom effect). Hope this helps! Thanks, Nathan. ... View more

Hi Randy, Good news - if you have Pro 2.6 or later, we've added a layer-option for this exact case --> that is, the ability to load irregular time-steps from a data source as the "steps" for the time slider. The main link in the Help for this topic is below --> it talks about the two time-slider options for this kind of data - that is: [1] use two-date-fields (instead of one) so features effectively stay displayed until a replacement feature becomes current; or [2] use the unique values within the data to set the stops to use when stepping forward in time. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/time/irregularly-spaced-temporal-data.htm For the second option, the process is to first configure the layer with the irregular time-steps (from values in the data), and then configure the time slider to use that layer as its 'Step' source.  One extra tip - make sure you pay attention to the time-slider's duration value, because the 'step' process will move the entire time-duration forward based on the front/leading edge of the time slider. Hope this helps! Thanks, Nathan. ... View more