Latest Contributions by BruceCuthbert1

With the 3D layer for terrain on, I would like to use Google Earth without the 3D buildings as the base for importing the CityEngine content into a defined polygon, and have the area outside the polygon have the 3D buildings turned on.  This would allow us to see the cityengine model without the current buildings showing through.  I was hoping by now that someone might be able to do this as the CityEngine models could look so much better surrounded by Google Earth 3D buildings.  ... View more

Thanks for quick response and info Chris. Yes, I am familiar with the Trimble 3D Warehouse and have used it. I did actually mean the Google "streaming building/landscape content".  With the "agreement" between Esri and Google for Earth and Maps,  I was hoping that some of this capability to access the generated stream would be available to leverage generated building/landscape stream in Esri models.  I think that being able to integrate "polygons of the streamed Google Earth content" (eg. existing golf course, existing sub-division) could really speed-up and enhance the CityEngine integration capability for Urban planning alternatives analysis. Cheers, Bruce ... View more

This is great idea and required to get cityies and munipalities to incorporate cityengine modles in their Official Community Plans.  If it is easier, they will come!!   Glad to see this in progress.  If you have beta testers, count me in! How do I find out more about the community program?   ... View more

contact Cloverpoint.com in Victoria, BC.  Ask for Jeff or Karl.  They have tools for this. ... View more

contact Cloverpoint.com in Victoria, BC.  Ask for Jeff or Karl.  They have tools for this. ... View more

Hi Matt, I would like to see video of how to apply terrain to cityengine residential neighbourhood models. For example, using data of Honolulu on the side of the hill. It would be helpful to start from various terrain sources such as LIDAR, and possibly google earth. Is there a script or ... to simplify having house, condos, etc. models grounded rather than floating? ... View more

Not quite.  I am in Victoria BC.  I have set the Scene to WGS 1984 UTM Zone 10N.  My DXF files is also set to the same 48.4328, -123.3347   I keep getting the error message when trying to bring in the data. I have put hours into trying to get this data loaded.  I don't want to give up, but ...  :confused: Bruce tc1@shaw.ca any chance of a quick Skype call or google hangout to get this working?  I am Pacific time. Hi ! DWG is not supported in CE. To prevent precision issues, CityEngine only allows datasets which are in a certain position, e.g. a city. If you have a city dataset in a specific projection in the scene and then e.g. want to add some data which is centered around the CARTESIAN origin, that new data is very far away from the dataset. That is prevented by that error message. So you need to check that your dxf data is also geolocated, with approximately the same coordinate values as the rest of the scene. Does this help ? ... View more

I am really interested in trying out cityengine for community planning. I see that you now have a video describing this. Excellent. I have been trying to import dxf and dwg data to cityengine of Esquimalt, BC, Canada. I keep getting a geolocation error which states my data is outside the extents?? ... View more

I have outlined a series of neighbourhoods in our community and saved them as a feature set in Arcgis Explorer Online. I then tried to send them to a friend that uses ARCGIS. He got back to me and said that he could not get at the info.  We are trying to get it to a shapefile.   So now I have just downloaded a trial version of ArcGIS desktop.  I put in the same basemap that I used online.  I am trying to pull in the features from the Online Arcgis explorer file.  So how do I get at the feature collection???   Thanks..  I can't seem to see any integration from the online to the desktop. Hi - There's no way to do this from Explorer Online; however a colleague has just sent me some very useful info that will hopefully help - you should be able to achieve what you want in the upcoming versions of ArcGIS Explorer Desktop, and ArcGIS (10.1) for Desktop. In the next ArcGIS Explorer Desktop release you'll be able to make a layer package from your notes, which could then be loaded into ArcMap (from where it could be saved out as a shapefile). In the current ArcGIS Desktop, feature collections are ignored if you open a web map, but in the upcoming ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop release, when you open a web map the feature collection layers will be automatically converted to feature class layers, which can then be exported as shapefiles. Hopefully one of these solutions will help. ... View more