Exporting in to Arc

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msingle2
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Exporting in to Arc

Post by msingle2 »

I am having issues exporting my figure and loading it in to Arc. I have tried the Rasterize method in which I want to export the C2C absolute distances layer. I have tried saving/exporting as a variety of files (ASCII, shp, tif) but nothing seems to work/load correctly in Arc. Basically I want to export the figure so I can overlay other figures on top of it (I am looking at sinkhole development and I want to overlay a geological map).

Also as a side question, I have a beautiful figure now but when I zoom in I lose colour saturation. This is frustrating as I want to export as a bmp but it becomes quite dull when I zoom in to the areas of interest. I have tried sub sampling and running CC on a smaller area and the same thing happens... so I am not sure if it is related to the resolution of my data or if it may be a glitch with the program?

I am new to using this program and it has done exactly what I want but I just cant export the figure and present it.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you,

Morgan
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Re: Exporting in to Arc

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What version are you using?

The best way to do this is to use the latest 2.8 beta version (only available on Windows for now) and export the grid as a raster (geotiff) with 'active layer' checked (be sure to set the distances scalar field as 'active layer' first). This may already work with the 2.7 version but I recall there was an issue in the raster encoding that prevented some software tools to read the output raster.

Another way is to export the raster as a cloud, change the background color to white and then render the 3D view as an image (with 'Display > Render to File'). If necessary you can set the background color to something very flashy (e.g. purple) and then use a paint program (such as Paint.net) to set the purple as a transparent color and eventually save the file as PNG.
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