Exporting scenes

You can export an entire scene or individual 3D objects from a scene to the VRML world format (*.wrl). This is an accepted standard format for representing 3D scenes and these files can be viewed using a supported VRML viewer outside of Echoview.

See Exporting 3D objects and Viewing 3D objects outside Echoview for more information.

To export a scene

To export a scene from Echoview:

  1. Open the scene in Echoview. See Using scenes for information on the management of Echoview scenes.

  2. On the Scene menu, click Export then Scene...

  3. In the Files of type list, click a format.

  4. Choose a folder and enter a name for the export file.

  5. Click Save.

  6. If you chose the TIFF, GeoTIFF or JPEG format, complete the Export Scene to Image File dialog box.

VRML world files (*.wrl)

Echoview scenes may be exported to a file of any of the following types:

File type

Content

Inspected using

VRML world files (*.wrl)

3D scene

Can be viewed outside Echoview using a VRML client. VRML world files are written as text data files and can be viewed in their raw state using a text editor.

See also: Viewing 3D objects outside Echoview

TIFF or geoTIFF  files (*.tif, *.tiff)

2D plan view of the scene (looking down from above) with embedded geographic information

Image may be opened in most image editors.  Geographic information can be viewed using utilities such as listgeo (available from https://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/)

JPEG files (*.jpg, *.jpeg)

2D plan view of the scene (looking down from above) with geographic information in accompanying ESRI world file (*.jgw)

Image (*.jpg or *.jpeg) may be opened in most image editors.  Geographic information is written to a text file (*.jgw) that can be opened by most text editors.

Notes:

  1. To export a scene, each component of the scene must meet individual Echoview module license requirements. See Licenses and demonstration mode for more information.

  2. Only objects that are visible in the scene (have a valid time overlapping with the scene time window) will be exported.

See also

Dataflow window

Export Scene to Image File dialog box

Licenses and demonstration mode

Exporting raster images

Exporting objects from a scene

Exporting surfaces