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Add-in licensing
To begin using the Ground Model add-in, you need an active Ground Model license and a registered user. The Ground Model add-in utilizes a cloud-based licensing system, ensuring seamless access to its features. If you haven't registered your user yet, you can do so by sending an email to support@geocap.no or contacting your system administrator for assistance.
Follow these steps to license the add-in:
Launch ArcGIS Pro on your computer.
Open a new or existing project.
Click on the "Ground Model" tab in the ArcGIS Pro ribbon.
In the “License” section, click on the “Sign in” button. This will open up a sign-in page in your web browser.
Enter your credentials (username and password) associated with your Ground Model license.
Click ok to proceed
Once you are successfully logged in, the license button on the "Ground Model" tab should display "License OK," indicating that your add-in is now licensed and ready to use.
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When Ground Model has been installed and a valid license has been obtained, you are ready to start using the add-in.
User interface overview
The Ground Model add-in consist of four different components:
The Ground Model Tab on the ArcGIS Pro ribbon Ribbon along the top edge of ArcGIS Pro, which contains a series of buttons for interacting with the data and viewers.
The Ground Model Viewer, which contains 3D Scenes, Cross Section Viewers and Log Viewers. The viewer will be opened underneath the map, but can be moved around as a regular map window.
The Ground Model Contents pane, which contains all data that can be shown in the Ground Model Viewer. This is where you turn elements on and off and adjust the display settings of data.
The Ground Model Toolbox, which contains a series of geoprocessing tools to read and manipulate data. The toolbox can be found as Ground Model alongside the rest of the toolboxes in ArcGIS Pro.
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Start a Ground Model project
A Ground Model project is tied to one or several Ground Model Viewers and the corresponding Ground Model Contents pane.
Saving a Ground Model project
The Ground Model project is saved as a part of your ArcGIS Pro project, which means that when you save your Pro project, the state of the Ground Model project will also be saved.
Click New Viewer (to the left in the Ground Model toolbar) to open a new Geocap viewer window.
Data can now be added to the Ground Model viewer by drag and drop from the ArcGIS contents pane to the Geocap Table of Contents (TOC) pane, or by selection in the map (select button in the Geocap toolbar. Toggle off the data you wish to display in the viewer. 2D seismic can also be displayed in the 2D scene by right-cliking the line of interest in the Geocap TOC and selecting View in 2D.
2D seismic and AGS or LAS files are imported with tools located in the Ground Model Toolbox. To access the toolbox:
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Click View in the main toolbar and select Geoprocessing.
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In the geoprocessing dialog, click the Toolbox pane
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seamlessly integrated within your ArcGIS Pro project, eliminating the need for a separate Ground Model project. Instead, all Ground Model viewers, content, and settings are saved within your ArcGIS Pro project.
To begin, follow these steps:
Open the Ground Model Tab and click on New Viewer This action will open a new blank window below your Map window. It's important to note that only one viewer can be associated with a map at a time.
On the Ground Model Tab click Add Data From Map. This will load all contents of the map in to the Ground Model Table of Content pane.
Within the Ground Model Viewer, navigate to the 3D Scene tab and ensure that the text is displayed in blue. This signifies that the window has been selected.
To display data in the 3D Scene, simply enable the desired checkboxes in the Ground Model Contents pane.
Save your work by clicking the save button located in the top left corner of the ArcGIS Pro interface.
Open an existing Ground Model project
Start ArcGIS Pro and open the Pro project containing the Ground Model project.
The Ground Model Viewer should open up with the display you had when you last saved thed project.