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Engage 3D - The third dimension for MapInfo
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ENCOM employs more than 30 people in offices in Sydney,
Melbourne and Gosford. TYDAC is ENCOM reseller for
Switzerland.
Engage3D is the first fully-integrated 3D
solution for MapInfo Professional users. Display MapInfo
maps, gridded surfaces, points, lines, volume models and 3D
DXF objects. Extrude 2D features into 3D objects and create
fly-through recordings for playback. Engage3D also includes
powerful surface creation and analysis features, plus a host
of productivity enhancing tools for the MapInfo Professional
user.
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Engage 3D ENGAGE 3D is the first fully-integrated 3D solution for MapInfo
Professional users and offers the following functionality:
Three-dimensional Display of MapInfo Data
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Example 1: Zurich Airport with flight route and extruded 3D
Objects
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Example 2: DEM, Slope and
Aspect overlaid in a 3D View
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With just one mouse-click you can display any
MapInfo Workspace in a 3D-View using anything as your third
dimension (even a flat table ...).
The 3D User Interface of Engage 3D allows you to
interact with your 3D View in many ways:
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Interactive Zoom and Rotation of your
3D View in any direction (you can even look underneath!)
using the mouse or keyboard shortcuts.
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Quick Views: North, South, East, West,
Top, Bottom.
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Vertical Exaggeration (as well as
horizontal stretching)
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Vertical Offsets (multiple Workspaces
on top of each other,
see Example 2 on the left)
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Many Display Options:
Color Palettes, Transparency and so on.
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Overlay any MapInfo Layer.
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Display and Generation of 3D Objects (Extrude
Functionality, see Example 1 on the left und
below).
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Fly-through: interactively or along
existing data (such as a MapInfo TAB file)
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Layout of the 3D-View (for printing purposes).
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Copy of the 3D-View to a MapInfo Mapper in a
user defined resolution.
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Grid Creation
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Highly interactive Gridding
Dialog
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Highly configurable ASCII Import
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Starting from MapInfo point data you can
calculate grids using four different interpolation methods:
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IDW = Inverse
Distance Weighting is a universal technique that can be
applied to a wide range of spatial data. IDW uses weighted
average interpolation to estimate grid cell values and can
be used as either an exact or a smoothing interpolator.
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Triangulation (Delaunay). The
Triangulation method produces a regular gridded surface
through a set of data points by using an optimized Delaunay
triangulation algorithm. The triangular mesh is created by
drawing lines between adjacent input data points and forming
an irregular network such that no triangle edges are
intersected by other triangles.
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Spatial Neighbour. This method is
similar to the Inverse Distance Weighting described above
(see above) but does not use the search radius to
interpolate data values from surrounding cells.
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Minumum Curvature. The Minimum
Curvature gridding method is widely used in many branches of
science and research. This method creates an interpolated
surface similar to a thin, linearly elastic plate passing
through each of the data values defined in the input
dataset.
Several million points can easily be processed
on-the-fly. For larger data sets
(>2-3 millions, depending on the amount of RAM) and if you
need to include breaklines and contours in your model we suggest
to use the SurfaceFactory of FME (we experienced the
SurfaceFactory as being almost unlimited calculation a grid
using more then 70 million points!).
In addition you can import or use directly the following
grid formats:
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Creation of Contours
Contours from high resolution DEM with 5m equidistance.
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From any of the supported grids you can create contour lines
such as altitude, slope classes and so on applying any
equidistance.
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Highly performing and fast calculation even
on very large and high resolution datasets (example beside:
contours from a 0.5m resolution DEM from laser scanning data).
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Perfect smoothing! (s. image beside).
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Application of irregular equidistance using
an ASCII file as reference.
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Assignment of different line styles for major
contour intervals (s. image beside)
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Analysis: Vector/Raster
Overlay
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Overlay of properties & slope
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Grids (such as DEM, Slope etc.) can be overlaid with MapInfo
polygon layers (for example parcels) and Mean-, Minimum- and Maximum
Values can be calculated for each polygon,
Example (s. image): Calculation of mean,
minimum and maximum slope for each parcel.
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Volume Models (Voxel)
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Voxel Object over an aerial image
displayed using a "chair cut".
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A Voxel is basically a three dimensional cell object. The term
Voxel comes from Volume and Pixel means Voxels are
basically 3D-Pixels.
ENGAGE 3D supports different Voxel-Formats,
such as UBC, DEMI, Gemcom etc. and provides many display options (such
as cuts, transparency and so on, see image beside).
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Extrusion of 2D Objects
Extruded Buildings
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Using the Engage 3D Extrusion Wizard
you can:
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Define the objects to be extruded, such as a
selection or any MapInfo Layer.
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Assign the height of the based: fixed, from
grid, from attribute or any combination of the three.
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Extrusion height: fixed, from grid, from
attribute or any combination of the three.
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Optionally create or not create base, sides
and top.
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Color options: fixed or modulated by an
attribute (such as height)
3D DXF Objects are created using this function.
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MapInfo Productivity Tools
Enhanced Layer Control
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ENGAGE 3D provides in addition a great deal of MapInfo
Productivity Tools:
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Enhanced Layer Control. The Enhanced
Layer Control
gives you control of the entire MapInfo Professional
workspace. Standard layer controls for editing, selecting,
labelling and viewing layers are vailable in real-time.
Layers can also be grouped, with ‘drag and drop’
functionality between groups and mappers.
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Object editing tools. Objects can be
drawn and
edited via the keyboard, or using functions including
polyline smoothing, node thinning, object splitting, line
cutting, polygonising, objecttransformations and more.
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Map Making. Create accurate and
standardized scaled maps quickly and easily by setting the
paper size and map scale, then positioning the map sheet
over the required area.
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Data and Table Utilities. The Engage3D
powerful data manipulation utilities include text and
proximity searches, table sorting, node extraction,
coordinate updates and transformation, workspace editing and
much more.
And many more. Download the
Engage 3D Brochure
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