TIN Simplification
kgrover
Global Mapper UserTrusted User
Is there a way to simplify a TIN surface intelligently?? Such as removing triangle if there isn't a vertical change greater than a chosen tolerance such as 10 cm??
We tend to use TIN surfaces quite often as opposed to raster surfaces, just to preserve more detail of drainage courses, roads, etc., so we are looking for a way to intelligently simplify in GM.
Kevin
We tend to use TIN surfaces quite often as opposed to raster surfaces, just to preserve more detail of drainage courses, roads, etc., so we are looking for a way to intelligently simplify in GM.
Kevin
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To add to my original post, are there good ways to export a TIN out of GM?? I don't really want to go to an DXF format, or to any gridded format. Ideally I would to export to a LandXML file, but I don't believe that is possible.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
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You could select the triangles with the Digitizer Tool then right-click and select the Analyze/Measure submenu command to calculate elevation statistics which will add attributes like the min, max and average elevation. You could then right-click on the layer in the Control Center and select the CALC ATTR option and subtract the MIN_ELEV from MAX_ELEV to get the difference, then search on those and remove the smaller ones. Of course you probably want to somehow combine those triangles to simplify the TIN rather than just deleting them and that isn't yet possible in an automated fashion.
There is not yet support for exporting to LandXML, but that is on our todo list. There are some other TIN export formats besides DXF, like Vulcan .00t files, STL, or even 3D Shapefiles.
Thanks,
Mike
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