{"id":82161,"date":"2018-01-22T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/create-floors-from-3d-buildings\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:16:41","slug":"create-floors-from-3d-buildings","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/create-floors-from-3d-buildings","title":{"rendered":"Create floors from 3D buildings"},"author":3691,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,23341,22851,22841,24371,22871],"tags":[25781,23921,22901,24391,24341,26171],"industry":[],"product":[36561,42661],"class_list":["post-82161","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-analytics","category-national-government","category-local-government","category-public-safety","category-state-government","tag-3d","tag-arcgis-for-local-government","tag-national-government","tag-public-safety","tag-python","tag-urban-planning","product-arcgis-pro","product-arcgis-solutions"],"acf":{"short_description":"The January 2018 release of the Local Government 3D Basemap solution added the ability to create 3D floor features\u00a0from existing 3D buil...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The January 2018 release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/local-government\/help\/local-government-scenes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Government 3D Basemap<\/a> solution added the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/local-government\/help\/local-government-scenes\/get-started\/floors-creation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">create 3D floor features<\/a>\u00a0from existing 3D buildings. 3D floors can be used as input for creating 3D floor units or simply to visualize attributes per floor such as floor usage or floor occupancy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BuildingFloors_SpaceUseNumFloors.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/webscene\/viewer.html?webscene=94cd6adb254741f59da9d98e36b25395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An example of a building floor scene<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Input features are\u00a0multipatch buildings which can come from the Local Government 3D basemap solution or other sources such as CityEngine or 3rd party data providers. 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