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ET Surface - What's new


New functions

Function

Available in Implementation
GUI ToolBox
Modify TIN
PolygonZ TIN to ESRI TIN
Focal Statistics
Point Statistics
Invert Raster
Raster Plan Curvature
Raster Profile Curvature
Raster General Curvature

Improved functionality
  • Creation of ESRI TIN.  The Build TIN function can now output ESRI TIN as well as PolygonZ TIN.  When the ERSI TIN option is selected the input polylines or polygons can be triangulated as Hard Breaklines.
  • Modify TIN.  The ESRI TINs and PolygonZ TINs can be modified by adding data from a feature layer. Breaklines are supported in ESRI TIN.
  • New TIN algorithms.  The algorithms for TIN creation and modification are completely new and allow for much bigger datasets to be processed at better speed.  On 32 bit operating systems (Windows XP 32 bit or Windows 7 32 bit) with 4 GB of RAM the function should work with no problems on datasets with up to 6 million points. On 64 bit systems bigger datasets can be processed depending on the available memory
  • PolylineZ Characteristics - Z From Point and Z To Points are now added to the attribute table
  • ET TerrainViewer
    • Allows recording a video
    • Significantly improved rendering of polyline features.

Bugs fixed

  • ETTV cannot read some of the saved projects.
  • Setup bug - incorrect shortcut for ETTV.
  • Inability to handle unsigned char, unsigned short and long rasters.
  • Volume from Raster on ArcGIS 9.2 cannot build VAT
  • Negative Z values for Base Contour cannot be specified.
  • Incorrect labels in the GUI of the IDW function.
  • Interpolate Contours from raster function fails on specific datasets.
  • If no raster visible and Profile Feature used - a message box stating that no suitable layers appears.
  • For some rasters the Clip Raster with Polygons function cannot assign NoData correctly.
  • Features To 3D in some cases assigns NoData to some polylines on the boundary of the reference raster

See ET Surface User Guide for more information

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