{"id":162531,"date":"2009-05-13T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=162531"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:18:19","slug":"displaying-a-legend-in-arcscene","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/3d-gis\/displaying-a-legend-in-arcscene","title":{"rendered":"Displaying a legend in ArcScene"},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,22941],"tags":[29891,29271,38411],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-162531","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-mapping","tag-arcscene","tag-legends","tag-mapping-center","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"The best way to do this would be to export the image or images out of ArcScene.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0Can you show a legend in ArcScene? i.e. the symbology for the TINS being displayed. 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