ET Surface Installation

Installation instructions

Note that you have to be logged  as an Administrator on the machine you are installing ET Surface

Important note: If you have ET Surface installed and plan to uninstall ArcGIS you MUST first uninstall ET Surface

• Close ArcMap
• If you have a previous version of ET Surface installed, uninstall it first.
• Make sure that you have the sub-version of ET Surface appropriate for your ArcGIS version
• Unzip ETSurfaceXX.zip - two files will be extracted from the archive:
  • setup.exe
  • ETSurfaceXX_YY_Setup.msi
• Run setup.exe - a simple installation wizard will guide you through the process.
• A new program group with 3 items will be created
  • ET Surface User Guide
  • Readme
  • Terrain Viewer

If you start ArcMap the ET Surface toolbar should be already loaded.

• For pre ArcGIS 10 - Go to View ==> Toolbars and select the toolbar.

• For ArcGIS 10 - Go to Customize ==>Toolbars and select the toolbar.

Note:

ET Surface runs in DEMO mode until registered.

• The Demo mode has the following limitations

  • Build TIN function will use the first 500 points of the input feature class only.
  • Profiling, Line of Sight, and Digitize Z features functions will use the first 50 data points only
  • The functions that use surface datasets will work on surfaces with:
    • ESRI TIN - less than 1000 triangles
    • TIN PolygonZ - less than 1000 triangles
    • The raster functions do not have restriction on size, but the resulting rasters (if with more than 10,000 cells) will have a stamp with NoData cells.
  • The functions for which the main data source are feature classes, will not work on feature classes with more than 100 features. 

• The registered version does not have the above restrictions.

• See How to Register ET Surface for registration information

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