(Better) support for Multipatches in Arcpy

[XanderBakker]

The Arcpy module has a Multipatch class which inherits from the Geometry class, but there is no documentation on how to create Multipatches in Arcpy. See also my remarks at the end of the blog post Working with 3D and M-aware geometries in Arcpy

I would to see (better) support for Multipatches in Arcpy and possibly the inclusion of the necessary objects (triangles and fans) to create them.

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[AndreasLorentzen]

Note: Talked to the product owner of arcpy at the ESRI UC this summer.

They are now aware of this issue and promised to add the multi-patch geometry in (if lucky) pro v3.1.

Lets hope it goes trough 🙂

[OleSeidel1]

Is there a way (by now as of March 2024) to create or modify/manipulate a multipatch feature from coordinates or other existing multipatch geometries using ArcPy? 

We have buildings as multipatches. Each “wall” is a vertical polygon. We want to convert each wall to a volumetric shape giving it a thinkness dimension of lets say 24 cm. Any help or hint is greatly appreciated.