Pitney Bowes MapInfo Vertical Mapper - Manual (Page 191)

Creating 3D Views Using
GridView
GridView enables you to generate 3D renderings of one or more numeric grid
files as well as adjust many settings such as the lighting, viewing angles,
reflectance, and shading properties. Through the use of drape files, text, line
work, colour-filled polygons, and raster imagery, you can render scenes in three
dimensions. In addition, you can save any scene as a bitmap image with a
corresponding MapInfo .tab file. This allows you to incorporate 3D scenes within
a MapInfo Professional Layout window.
In this chapter:
Š Launching GridView. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Š The Grid Layer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Š Working with Grid Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
Š The GridView Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
Š Making 3D Drape Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
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