I've only gotten to the point of creating the ellipsoid at the correct location but cannot seem to orient or rotate them accordingly.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance.
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Orient and angle ellipse feature in 3D space
I am trying to create ellipse features that are perpendicular to our drill hole trace (line feature). I have the centroid x, y, and z coordinates, the azimuth and dip data for each ellipse.
+43- Safer
The EllipsePropertySetter transformer (or 2DEllipseReplacer) will handle the rotation correctly in 2D space. ie it would have a vertical Z axis. If I read you right, you want to apply a dip to the ellipse. For this use the 3DRotator with a rotation around the X axis.
I tried this and it seems to do what I think you need. Hope this helps.
Mark
Thanks Mark - I didn't have the newest version of FME installed so didn't realize a 3DRotator was available now.
It was a combination of custom 3D rotators to (1) Flip using x axis (2)Rotate using [Azimuth] and (3) Tilt using 90-[Dip].
Appears to work perfectly!
Side note, if I tried to flip the feature on the x axis using a 90deg I would get an import error (I am writing out to a dwg in FME then importing the dwg in Sketchup), so I used 89 degrees and actually used a tilt calculation of 89-[dip]
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