An overview of the 3D Features toolset

The 3D Features toolset provides a collection of tools for constructing, converting, and evaluating the geometric properties of 3D features.

3D Features toolset

Tools in the 3D Features toolset

Tool	Description
Enclose Multipatch	Creates closed multipatch features from open multipatch features.
Is Closed 3D	Evaluates multipatch features to determine whether each feature completely encloses a volume of space.
Simplify 3D Line	Generalizes 3D line features to reduce the overall number of vertices while approximating the original shape in horizontal and vertical directions within a specified tolerance.

Conversion toolset

Tools in the Conversion toolset

Tool	Description
ASCII 3D To Feature Class	Imports 3D features from one or more ASCII files stored in XYZ, XYZI, or GENERATE formats into a new feature class.
Feature Class Z To ASCII	Exports 3D features to ASCII text files storing GENERATE, XYZ, or profile data.
Feature To 3D By Attribute	Creates 3D features using height values derived from the attribute of the input features.
Features From CityEngine Rules	Generates 3D geometries from existing 2D and 3D input features using rules authored in ArcGIS CityEngine.
Import 3D Files	Imports one or more 3D models into a multipatch feature class.
Layer 3D To Feature Class	Exports feature layers with 3D display properties to 3D lines or multipatch features.

Extraction toolset

Tools in the Extraction toolset

Tool	Description
Extract Multipatch From Mesh	Creates a multipatch feature from the portion of an integrated mesh that overlaps a polygon.
Extract Power Lines From Point Cloud	Extracts 3D line features modeling power lines from classified point cloud data.
LAS Building Multipatch	Creates building models derived from rooftop points captured in lidar data.
Multipatch Footprint	Creates polygon footprints representing the two-dimensional area of multipatch features.
Regularize Adjacent Building Footprint	Regularizes building footprints that have common boundaries.
Regularize Building Footprint	Normalizes the footprint of building polygons by eliminating undesirable artifacts in their geometry.

Interpolation toolset

Tools in the Interpolation toolset

Tool	Description
Interpolate Polygon To Multipatch	Creates surface-conforming multipatch features by draping polygon features over a surface.
Interpolate Shape	Creates 3D features by interpolating z-values from a surface.
Update Feature Z	Updates the z-coordinates of 3D feature vertices using a surface.