Experience Smallworld GIS in 3D

Imagine the benefits of viewing your existing two dimensional data in a near real-time 3D environment. Imagine the enhanced communication level when you present your data in a realistic 3D environment. Imagine the 3D spatial knowledge gained before implementation. Imagine no more; it is reality with IT3D® from Field Consulting and Services.

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3D is Easy!

IT3D is a do it yourself product that allows you to convert your 2D data into a 3D environment. After initial mapping of what objects and attributes to use, creating 3D environments is a point and click away. You do not need to send your data out to a 3rd party and wait on them for your 3D data.

GIS Interactivity

The following functions allow interactivity between the IT3D Viewer and your GIS application.

• Define the viewpoint of the Viewer from within the GIS application.
• Show the current Viewer eye point location and orientation as an overlay in your GIS application.
• Create a flight path for the Viewer within the GIS application.
• Select features in the Viewer and view or edit their attribution from your GIS application.
• Select a feature in your GIS application and highlight it in the Viewer.
• Dynamically add and move features to the 3D environment from your GIS application.
• Dynamically add Lines of Site to the 3D environment created in your GIS application.

Powerful 3D Viewer

The 3D viewer is an adaptation of simulator quality image generation used for commercial and military training applications. The high quality image generation gives you the ability to control features like Time of Day, Fog, Dynamic Paging of data to support large areas.

System Requirements

The basic system requirements to run the 3D viewer is the same as a typical gamer's system.

Operating System Requirements

The 3D requires Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows XP Embedded. The 3D viewer has been tested on Intel and AMD 32-bit processors in single, dual, and Hyperthreading configurations.  In all configurations, the best performance is provided with only limited CPU load.

Graphics Card Rquirements

Compatible with many DirectX 9.x cards.  Most high-end cards work well, however economy cards (as one may expect) fare poorer. More information on which graphics cards have been tested can be found at this website (the viewer is running with V6). There is also a section on laptop compatibilities on that page.

Known Cards That Do Not Work

NVidia GeForce 3 Series.

The Process

IT3D leverages your existing data within your Smallworld GIS to provide a 3D simulated scene. There is a simple API that allows you to use your current attribution to define the required 3D environment attributes during the export process.

• Building footprints and forest boundaries.
  • Are extruded to a defined height based on any current attribution.
  • The sides are given a texture from the texture library or from a digital image you created.
• Power lines and poles.
  • The lines are converted into 3D line geometry with a sag to give a realistic representation.
  • The pole locations and orientations are used to place 3D pole models from model library or from any that you created.
• Smallworld Rasters are exported to tiled imagery that is blanketed on top of the TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network).
• Smallworld TIN geometry is exported with image coordinate data.
• Point features, like cell towers, wind turbines, and individual trees, within Smallworld can be exported and replaced with a 3D model.
• Pipes are extruded into 3D geometries which have real diameters which gives you a true feel of the size of the pipe when included with other features in the 3D scene.

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