I’m new to ArcScene. I’m using a historic map, in arcmap, to draw old roads, garden plots and tree locations. My trees are in a point shapefile in ArcMap, I brought them into ArcScene and I’m trying to figure out how I can display them in a way that is true to their height. Can you provide a step-by-step instructional guide on how to do this? I used the surface elevations of my DEM to assign ZM values (see Z column). I also assigned an arbitrary 20ft value to each tree (see Zoffset column).
I think I have all of the correct information in my ZM tree shapefile but I’m just not using the correct tools to display what I need to display. Can you help? I’ve searched for a couple of days online and can’t find anything. I noticed in your “How to correctly display trees in ArcScene” that your snapshot showed trees of different sizes. Hoping you can assist.
thanks!
PS do you know of any additional tutorials I could use for this project? Web forums, youtube videos, books, etc. I would like to use ArcScene for future projects, this is my first. All future projects of interest would be created in the same way- bringing in a map or aerial, adding buildings (currently from sketchup), adding landscape features like trees, water and roads.