I have a ESRI cityengine model of a city which I would like to export into rhino, I did so using the OBJ (as well as FBX) format, but however I got meshes that are not correctly shaped. (mainly on the roof)
I have successfully licenced CityEngine for personal use using named user, in arcgis online (your personal account organisation) make sure you have allocated the cityengine licence to your user account (ArcGIS Urban Suite) see agol Organization>Licenses. When CityEngine launches you'll sign in using your personal use account. You need to make sure you have activated your subscription and setup your organisation in agol, I dont think any products will work until you have done this.
problem is, nowhere in cityengine a way to select type of unit to be found for exporting file. When I import the exported file into autocad or 3ds max it reads as centimeters, so I'm assuming cityengine exports centimeters by default, but it seems like cityengine only changes the unit without converting the numbers. (for example 1ft -> 1cm, instead of 1ft -> 30.48cm).
Another question is I want to import a shapefiles into cityengine, which countain some building footprints, I then want to draw a shape under an amount of building footprints, and then see if a footprint is on top of the shape and if it is then calculate the sqm which is not covered by the footprint.
thise a basically the tasks at hand and i quess the question is, is this something you do with python and what task can python do in cityengine?. Would it improve my skills in cityengine to understand python?
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