3D CONTOUR MAPS

3DField converts your data into contour maps and surface plots. It creates a 3D map or a contour chart from the scattered points, numerical arrays or other data sets. All aspects of 2D or 3D maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want. The software component SWLib and others are available. Take a look on 3DSurface multiplatform application.

Choose the FILE | OPEN command to load:

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- scattered (X,Y,Z) data points
  (up to a few million for registered version);
- scattered (X,Y,Z, links) data points with links;
- math function plot;
- *.SHP files (ArcView ESRI Shapefiles);
- GPS NMEA files (elevations or depths);
- ASCII *.DEM USGS Digital Elevation Model files;
- ASCII *.DXF Autocad files (points and lines entities);
- ASCII *.GEN ArcInfo files (polygons);
- *.GRD Surfer files;
- *.ASC ArcInfo compatible ASCII grid format;
- *.CPS ASCII CPS-3 grid;
- *.DBF DBase files;
- BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, GeoTIFF pictures;
- *.3DF 3DField documents;
- *.3DFBAT 3DField BAT command file;
- *.PNG files with the 3DField data inside logo;
- *.CSV files from SonarViewer (Lowrance Electronics);
- 1" and 3" SRTM data in HGT format (with .HGT
  extension);
- Dogital elevation data in *.FLT files;
- *.SLG Lowrance Sonar Log Data files using SLG2TXT
  utility from Lowrance Customer Service.

Choose the FILE | OPEN 2D/3D DATA command to load 2D/3D matrix data

Choose the FILE | IMPORT GPS DATA command to load data (waypoints, tracks, routes and links) from GPS files:

Cetus for Palm/OS;
CoPilot Flight Planner for Palm/OS;
DeLorme GPL;
DeLorme (drawing) file;
DeLorme Street Atlas Route;
EasyGPS binary format;
Garmin Mapsource:
Garmin PCX5;
GeocachingDB for Palm/OS;
GeoGrid-Viewer;
GeoNiche .pdb;
GpilotS;
GPSPilot Tracker for Palm/OS;
Holux (gm-100) Format;
KuDaTa PsiTrex text;
Lowrance USR;
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Magellan NAV Companion for Palm/OS;
Magellan serial protocol;
Magellan SD files (as for Meridian);
Magellan SD files (as for eXplorist);
Motorrad Routenplaner (Map & Guide);
MS PocketStreets 2002 Pushpin;
National Geographic Topo;
NMEA 0183 sentences;
Quovadis;
OziExplorer;
PathAway Database for Palm/OS;
TomTom POI file;
TopoMapPro Places File;
Vito Navigator II tracks;
U.S. Census Bureau Tiger Mapping Service;

Result maps:

terrain 2d color map - black and white contour map;
- color fill contour map;
- color cells map;
- color points map;
- color earth relief map;
- Direchlet color tesselations map;
- Delauney triangles map;
- color and monotone relief map;
- circle values map;
- color polygons map;
pie map;
- slope map;
functions plot;
- various data visualization charts;
- 3D view relief contour maps;
- graph maps;
- rotated images;
- graphic plots with a few Y-axis;
- transparent contour color fill;
- viewshed contours;
- OpenGL 3D map with contours and textures.

Export:

- 3D mesh (surface) in Autocad DXF format;
- contours with labels in Autocad DXF format;
- contours as 3D polylines in Autocad DXF format;
- contours as 3D polylines in ArcView ESRI
  Shapefiles SHP format;
- data points in Autocad DXF format;
- points, contours and drawing lines as
   waypoints, routes and tracks to GPS files;
- *.GRD Surfer 6 files;
- 2D mesh of triangles in text format;
- 2D/3D mesh of triangles in Autocad DXF format.
- Keyhole Markup Lunguage in Google Earth KML format.
- UTM to Geo coordinates in Google Earth KML format.
- estimated grid values in scattered points to text file.
- estimated grid values along polyline to text file.
- lengths, squares, volumes for polygons to text file.
Google Earth KML from 3DField

8 gridding methods:

-  RBF (Radial Basis Functions);
-  Inverse Distances;
-  Triangulation;
-  Kriging;
-  Minimum Curvature;
-  Natural Neighbors;
-  Linear System;
-  MBA (Multilevel B-Spline Approximation).
contour map in 3DField
Export to Autocad
contour map in 3DField

Other options:

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-  Automatic or user-defined contour intervals and ranges;
-  Control over contour label format, font, frequency
  and spacing;
-  Automatic or user-defined color for contour lines;
-  Color and texture fill between contours, either user-
  specified or as an automatic spectrum of your choice;
Base map attached to data points;
-  Data analysis, histogram for scattered and interpolated
  grid values;
Filter and other math operation for grid;
-  2D data regression;
-  Alpha shape;
-  Convex hull for points;
Transparent background and contour map;
Rotated and transparent 2D image;
-  Splines for lines and contours;
-  View and zoom BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF and GeoTIFF
  images;
-  Automatically and manually digitize image;
-  Import and export polylines;
-  Ascending or descending sort for values or coordinates of points;
-  OpenGL view with full screen rotation;
-  Textures;
Convert a contour bitmap to a 3D view;
-  Output maps as EMF, WMF, BMP, JPG, PNG, GeoTIFF file formats
-  Insert maps (vector EMF or bitmap) in any document Microsoft Office;
-  Multipage scale print;
-  Multilingual interface;

Other products:

3DSurface Android
3DSurface;
Gridding libraries;
Contouring libraries;
Qt contour project;
SWLib 3D OpenGL visualization project;

How create contour map:

If you have the scattered points data set:
X Y Value or Z
(option)
Label
(option)
26070 46750 4.6750 Point_1
27890 37640 3.7640  
... ... ...  
24080 36560 3.6560 "Point 23"
Open that file in 3DField contour map 3d 01
Draw the boundary by mouse or load it ( if it is necessary) contour map 3d 02
Double-click on "Color fill contours" tree item of the Map list contour map 3d 03
Click on 3D OpenGL View button at the toolbar contour map 3d 04
If you need 4D interpolation in volume, look at 3DFieldPro contour map 3d 05

You can register your copy of 3DField at a cost of $99 or € 79. Update free.

This program can be registered through ShareIt
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in € (Euro).
    This program can be registered through PayPro
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in $ (USD).