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ScenProc - difficult to export Shp file

The problem is in these lines:

REATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=buildings .shp;FWIDTH<20|{5ae04eb6-934c-4f63-bb48-5e7dee601212}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNROWHOUSE|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=buildings .shp

I am not sure what you itentions are, but this would work better:

REATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=buildings.shp;FWIDTH<20|{5ae04eb6-934c-4f63-bb48-5e7dee601212}|MAXRATIO=2
CREATEAGNROWHOUSE|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=buildings.shp;FWIDTH>20

But I am not sure if you want to make rowhouses only from buildings with a width bigger than 20.
 
yes arno,
i want to have rowhouses when buildings are width of 20.

Do you say why if i build rowhouses in annotator i dont see anything in FSX, while if rowhouses are composed automaticalyy by shp file yes i see row houses.

Simone
 
Hi,

I have no idea why they would not work in Annotator. I have used them with success before through Annotator as well.
 
arno said:
Hi,

I think 70 mb should be ok. I am not behind my FS pc at the moment, once I am there I will check the size of the files I used to convert almost an entire province of the Netherlands.

Does it stop at 0% at loading the shapefile or is it later on with the split grid step?
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Hi,

Sorry for the delay in replying here... can you check the files? Here is where I downloaded:

ftp://www.pasda.psu.edu/pub/pasda/alleghenycounty/AlleghenyCounty_Footprints20080616.zip

I've tried simplifying formats in qgis to have smaller file, but no use.

Kindly,

Blazer
 
Hi,

It seems to be working fine here. Did you enter the correct reprojection string, since your data is not in WGS84 already?

IMPORTSHP|AlleghenyCounty_Footprints20080616.shp|+proj=lcc +lat_1=40.96666666666667 +lat_2=39.93333333333333 +lat_0=39.33333333333334 +lon_0=-77.75 +x_0=600000 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +to_meter=0.3048006096012192 +no_defs
 
Hi,

Thanks for this tip. I did not... Where would I have gotten this information from? Somewhere within qgis when loading the file?

Kindly,

Blazer
 
Hi,

According to the scenproc manual input shapefiles always must be geodetic coordinates WGS84. If that is not the case the importer step can convert it for you. For that you need to give the definition of the projection used by the data.

Your shapefiles come with a prj file that specifies the projection used. QGIS also shows the EPSG code after loading the data. So then I used this site to find the Proj4 string for the configuration file:

http://spatialreference.org

Since the original projection was in meters not in degrees, the numbers were much bigger. So that would mean that the split grid step would divide it in much more cells and therefore take more time (and possibly even fail).
 
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