{"id":445,"date":"2012-01-19T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=445"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:35:12","slug":"arcgis-and-cityengine-careful-when-you-smooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS and CityEngine : careful when you smooth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting issue I&#8217;ve come across going back and forth from CityEngine to ArcGIS. \u00a0 Importing a file geodatabase (GDB) CityEngine doesn&#8217;t see my results from smoothing edits.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447 \" title=\"ArcGIS Smooth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb1.jpg?resize=300%2C228\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb1.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb1.jpg?w=683&amp;ssl=1 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How I thought it was drawn...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ol>\n<li>Draw a feature in ArcGIS \u00a0in a File Geodatabase (GDB), then run the smooth tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar.<\/li>\n<li>Import the File GeoDatabase into CityEngine (when doing an import it seems you have to click back and then forward to refresh the GDB contents&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>Now look at the same feature in CityEngine, it&#8217;s not straight is it?\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"CityEngine no smooth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb.jpg?resize=300%2C159\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cityengine_smooth_gdb.jpg?w=797&amp;ssl=1 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#39;s not how I thought I did it....<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>So export the feature as a shapefile instead and import into CityEngine, the feature retains its smoothness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not sure whether its a bug or my misunderstanding of a feature&#8230; I guess a smooth is described in a GDB rather than drawn, whereas shapefiles just draw the feature via vertices. \u00a0 Either way it&#8217;s a good example of knowing the limitations of your file formats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting issue I&#8217;ve come across going back and forth from CityEngine to ArcGIS. \u00a0 Importing a file geodatabase (GDB) CityEngine doesn&#8217;t see my results from smoothing edits. Draw a feature in ArcGIS \u00a0in a File Geodatabase (GDB), then run the smooth tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar. Import the File GeoDatabase into CityEngine (when doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,12,13,116,145,64,54,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-3d","category-arcgis","category-arcmap","category-city-creation","category-cityengine","category-esri","category-tips","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}