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Import Terrain Assistant

Filter Data

1 The number of elevation points that the box represents a subset of this data, defined
text file contains displays here for by ranges on the X and Yaxes.
reference. Building terrain with a lot of
elevation data can take a long time.

If your text file has more than 1000 or 2000
elevation points, consider filtering it using
the settings that follow or using the Linear
Smoothing option in the Terrain
Specification dialog. See “General Panel”
on page 1216.

2 Restrict the imported data to these
ranges:
One way to filter the data used is to define a 3 Reduce the amount of data imported.
range for each axis: X, Y, and Z. Data within
these ranges is imported, while data outside Another way to filter the imported data is by
these ranges is not. skipping data points. Specify every 2 points
In the following diagram, the outer box and to reduce this data by 50%; specify every 10
the points within it represent all of the data points to reduce the data by 90%.
contained in a given text file. The smaller Click Next to continue.

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