Models vs. 3D Symbols Well, a week has passed and we’re sure that all of you are anxiously awaiting the answer to last week’s question about the multipatch. Those of you t

Making a Tree Symbol In this issue of the newsletter we will touch on some of the specific tasks and issues involved in creating a good 3D Symbol of a tree. There are a nu

  An easy way to build a forest Before we start our discussion of Bionatics’ REALnat software, we have two announcements to make.- As this issue of our 3D GIS Newsletter arrive

Organizing Your 3D Scene Well, a few weeks have gone by since our last newsletter went out. In the interim, hopefully all of you have received a box from ESRI containing A

The 3D Migration ContinuesSummer is over and daylight savings time is coming to an end. It was still warm and sunny in late July when we published our last 3D GIS newsletter. Bet

3D Visualization & Simulation in ArcGIS 9 The forthcoming release of ArcGIS, version 9 highlights just how far mapping tools have come since their early days. The first GIS maps we

3D Scene Efficiency Creating a visually correct, real-time 3D scene from your GIS data necessitates a balance between graphic quality and data efficiency. In the process o

SketchUp™ and the MultipatchPutting this newsletter together has been very exciting for us. Thanks to the efforts of @Last Software and their product called SketchUp™, multipatch