Latest Contributions by EricEagle

Just like the title says.  I'd like to be able to export an elevation raster to any common mesh format (e.g., OBJ, STL, PLY).   I know this is super easy because I've already built open-source scripts that do it, using nothing but the dependencies that already ship with ArcGIS Pro's default conda instance.  I just think it would be nice to have the functionality included in 3D Analyst. The problem: Currently I manage a team that builds a high volume of precise, location-aware architectural models.  We construct the models themselves using an industry standard 3D pipeline but seat the finished product on 3D terrain.  We are not interested in CityEngine.  Our workflow to get this terrain into external, professional 3D tools is:   Terrain to TIN... TIN to Multipatch... Multipatch to Collada... Collada to (SketchUp, Maya, Blender, Meshlab, etc).  This is a bad workflow.  Why, one could be forgiven for asking, do we have to go from a TIN to a Multipatch?  That is because it's not *really* a TIN, it's an "Esri TIN" which is recognized by no mesh software at all, it is only for ArcGIS Desktop/Pro.  So we have to incur the extra step of going to *another* dead-end format (Multipatch) to get it into a broadly compatible format (Collada).   So really my idea is an either/or:  Either, 1. Raster to TIN will generate a compatible, standard TIN file; or, 2. A toolkit like Raster to Mesh gets introduced that allows the user to go straight from a surface raster to a *fully compatible, open* mesh format.   Again, I have scripted this up already; it's kind of funny but we're using ArcGIS Pro as a framework to call processes that allow us to avoid using Esri's dead-end proprietary formats.  It does work but puts us in technical debt.  Please add this functionality to ArcGIS Pro, even if it's stashed behind an extension paywall.  Thanks! ... View more

I can get a map's view extent by doing this: p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject('CURRENT') m = p.listMaps()[0] e = m.defaultCamera.getExtent()   However this is real janky because a user can move the map and re-run the code, and it doesn't update until the project is saved.  This has been the case from what I can tell, for around five years now.   Maybe it's easier to explain what I need to do.  In a script tool, I need to set the arcpy.env.extent parameter to "Same as display" but do it with python rather than forcing a user to manually select "same as display" in the GUI every single time.   Is there a "best practice" to implement this behavior in python?  I had read that this property was made available to python sometime recently, but I can't find any documentation on it. ... View more

I would like the ability to upload a layer package (*.lpkx) to an ArcGIS Enterprise instance, and publish it as a set of hosted services (raster and vector).   There are cases where we have to move content to portals that we don't have access to, and Esri desperately needs some sort of portable format that does not require administrative access to upload quickly and easily as a service(s) and have those services look exactly as they were intended, without any manual configuration. ... View more

Seems like a simple question; couldn't find the answer anywhere. Conda should be kept up to date by doing conda update conda from the root environment.  But this is what I get: ... View more

Assume I have a point layer called "pointlayer" loaded in my active map (ArcGIS Pro).  I set its symbology to a single symbol/color for all points. I can discover symbology properties by layer easily using Python: p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject('CURRENT') m = p.activeMap l = m.listLayers('pointlayer')[0] sym = l.symbology print(sym.renderer.symbol.color) ## Result: {'RGB': [76, 230, 0, 100]}‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Plain sailing.  However, how would I discover symbol properties per feature?  The documentation examples have only to do with updating a layer's symbology.  However, I'd like to use Python to report RGBA values for each feature in a layer, once a user has already styled it with ArcGIS Pro. ... View more