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D-Flow Flexible Mesh

D-Flow Flexible Mesh (D-Flow FM) is the new software engine for hydrodynamical simulations on unstructured grids in 1D-2D-3D. Together with the familiar curvilinear meshes from Delft3D 4, the unstructured grid can consist of triangles, pentagons (etc.) and 1D channel networks, all in one single mesh. It combines proven technology from the hydrodynamic engines of Delft3D 4 and SOBEK 2 and adds flexible administration, resulting in:

  • Easier 1D-2D-3D model coupling, intuitive setup of boundary conditions and meteorological forcings (amongst others).
  • More flexible 2D gridding in delta regions, river junctions, harbours, intertidal flats and more.
  • High performance by smart use of multicore architectures, and grid computing clusters.
An overview of the current developments can be found here.
 
The D-Flow FM - team would be delighted if you would participate in discussions on the generation of meshes, the specification of boundary conditions, the running of computations, and all kinds of other relevant topics. Feel free to share your smart questions and/or brilliant solutions! 

 

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Please follow this link to the new forum: 
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Post your questions, issues, suggestions, difficulties related to our Delft3D Flexible Mesh Suite on the new forum.

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Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

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Luca Castrucci, modified 4 Years ago.

Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

Youngling Posts: 14 Join Date: 6/17/16 Recent Posts
These days I am having problems to convert my bathymetry from a raster to a .xyz file, to use with RGFGRID/QUICKIN. I have tried to convert the raster to an ASCII file using "ArcGIS - Conversation Tools - From Raster to ASCII', but since the points elevations are grouped together it did not work. Moreover, the ASCII file do not have the x and y values. I have looked for other options, and I found " 3D Analysis Tools - Conversion - From Feature Class - Feature Class Z to ASCII" which gives outputs in the format x1,y1,z1 etc..., but unfortunately I don't have the license to use this tool. Another thing I have noticed is that no other file except raster can be converted to ASCII file. This makes me think that the only way to create an .xyz file is to convert a raster with x,y and z values to an ASCII file, arrange the data in the correct format (three columns) and then rename it .xyz.
How do you usually create .xyz file from a bathymetry raster?
quickin rgfgrid .xyz arcgis
Dmitry Kushnir, modified 4 Years ago.

RE: Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

Jedi Knight Posts: 107 Join Date: 11/9/12 Recent Posts
Hi Luca,

How about creating isolines from the raster? You can then convert polylines to points, and export X, Y and Z values to the ASCII-file.
I usually use that option for .xyz files.
If you need more information, let me know.

Regards,

Dmitry
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Luca Castrucci, modified 4 Years ago.

RE: Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

Youngling Posts: 14 Join Date: 6/17/16 Recent Posts
Dimitry thank you for the hint. But I don't think I understood it completely. So what you do is:
1) Using "Spatial Analysis - Contour" you create isolines, which value do you use for contour interval?
2) How do you convert the isolines to points? Do you use the tool "Data Management Tools - Sampling - Generate Points Along Lines"?
3) After having the points (X and Y), do you use the tool "Spatial Analysis Tools - Extract Values to Points" to get the elevation (Z)?
4) As far as I know, only rasters seem to be exportable in ASCII-file, but I am newer to ArcGIS as well, so I am probably wrong. Can you go a little more into the details of your procedure?

Regards,

Luca
quickin rgfgrid .xyz arcgis
Dmitry Kushnir, modified 4 Years ago.

RE: Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

Jedi Knight Posts: 107 Join Date: 11/9/12 Recent Posts
Hi Luca,

1) I use Spatial Analyst >Surface> Isolines to create isolines from raster. For contour interval an arbitrary value can be chosen, based on the model refinement.
2) To convert isolines to points: Data Management Tools> Features > Feature Vertices To Points.
3) I actually don't use Spatial Analysis Tools > Extract Values to Points, as Z-values should have already been present in the attributive table of the points-layer. Instead, you will have to add x- and y- coordinates to the table. It can be done through Data Management Tools>Feature>Add XY Coordinates.
4) Next, you'll have to export resulting attributive table to the appropriate file format to catch it in Quickin.
For instance, you might consider using Conversion Tools>Table to dBase. dBase format is readable by many other programs, e.g. Excel, from where you can export to the ACSII .txt-file. Or directly export table to the .xls-file (Conversion Tools> Table to Excel).

There is also more straightforward way for exporting raster to ASCII (skipping the creation of isolines): Conversion Tools>Raster to Point. As a result, we get a points layer in a shape-file format with Z-values in the attributive table. Then we just have to complete steps 3) and 4).

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Dmitry
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Luca Castrucci, modified 4 Years ago.

RE: Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

Youngling Posts: 14 Join Date: 6/17/16 Recent Posts
Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for your guide lines. I have worked on it today but I got a problem between step 3 and 4. When I tried to add X and Y coordinates, ArcGIS gave me the error: "Out of memory. The dataset is too large to complete this operation. Returning to previous state". Maybe I have more points than ArcGIS can handle. The strange thing is that I have this problem only when I use Conversion Tool > Raster to Points, with isolines it works great. Do you have the same problem?
Which methods between the two do you use the most? I believe that the Raster to point is the better one since all points are selected, thus it makes the bathymetry on QUICKIN more precise.

Best

Luca
rgfgrid .xyz arcgis
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thujanan theivendran, modified 3 Months ago.

RE: Raster to .xyz file (ArcGIS)

Youngling Posts: 1 Join Date: 5/6/20 Recent Posts
You can convert bathymetry data (ASC file type) to .xyz using delft 3d-Quickplot, you can import bathymetry data to quick plot and export the data by selecting the file type as 'sample', then your bathymetry data will  save as .xyz file