making TIN surfaces???

[khann]

hi,
I have a map with contourlines of z-coordinate.
I'm trying to make TIN surfaces.
I need to make the surfaces with 3D-Face object.
I couldn't find the proper way to solve this because of too many vertices. Did I click all the polyline vertices ? Anybody knows to do this easier and faster.
Thanks

khann.

 

[James Maeding]

I recommend using Land Desktop. THen it can display the surface with 3d faces. This is bread and butter for Land... I am curious if there are good routines out there to triangulate and extract data from surfaces. I wonder if anything can beat Land's speed for triangulation - probably not as I understand that is something they tried to optimize in C.

"khann"
|>hi,
|>I have a map with contourlines of z-coordinate.
|>I'm trying to make TIN surfaces.
|>I need to make the surfaces with 3D-Face object.
|>I couldn't find the proper way to solve this because of too many vertices. |>Did I click all the polyline vertices ? |>Anybody knows to do this easier and faster. |>Thanks |> |>khann.
|>

James Maeding
Civil Engineer/Programmer

 

[khann]

Thanks for your kind reply, James.
Now I'm gonig to get LDT.

I recommend using Land Desktop. THen it can display the surface with 3d faces. This is bread and butter for Land... I am curious if there are good routines out there to triangulate and

extract data from surfaces. I wonder if anything

can beat Land's speed for triangulation - probably not as I understand

that is something they tried to optimize in C.