Issues preserving vertical exaggeration when exporting 2D rockplot to ESRI shapefiles

[ejackson2701]

Attempting to export a vertically exaggerated cross section (stratigraphy profile) for deliverable finalization in ArcGIS Pro and upon import to GIS, vertical exaggeration is reduced to 1:1. Is there a way to preserve the vertical exaggeration from the rockplot viewer when exporting to a shapefile? Or am I doing something wrong upon importing to GIS, and it is not a rockworks issue? See the attached photos for reference.

[Katy D]

There are no options to preserve the vertical exaggeration for the export. This program is used to export the active layers of the current RockPlot2D display to an ESRI Shape file format, for use with ArcGIS. Three shape types are exported:

• Points: Circles, Symbols, Text
• Polylines: Lines, Polylines (such as contour lines), Arrows
• Polygons: Color contours, polygons

Other items in the RockPlot2D graphic will be ignored. It is highly recommended to limit the kinds of data that are being exported at any one time - use RockPlot2D's layers pane (on the right side) to enable/disable the items to be exported/not exported.

 

Sorry, but we don't have any GIS software to test the import with currently. 

[ejackson2701]

Update: I have experimented with the export to DXF/AutoDesk feature and importing the DXF file to my existing geodatabase. This appears to retain vertical exaggeration but issues are encountered with user-friendliness in converting CAD to useful GIS components.

 

Thank you for the info, Katy.