You can use numeric or text attributes in layers to filter features in scenes. For example, if you have a layer with buildings of New York City with the year built for each feature, you can visualize only buildings built between 1910 and 1930. By applying filters in a scene in Layer properties, you can stress the important features in a scene and filter out unnecessary data. You can filter feature layers, and 3D object, point, and point cloud scene layers.
Apply a layer filter
To apply a layer filter, complete the following steps:
- Under Filter, click the drop-down menu and choose an attribute.
- Optionally, choose a different attribute to apply a different filter.
- Based on whether you choose a numeric or text attribute, either a range of values or list of values is provided to filter by.
- When you choose a numeric attribute, you can switch between filtering by a list of values or range of values.
- You can apply only one filter at a time to a layer.
Filter by a list of values
When you choose a text attribute, a list of all the values you can apply the filter to is provided.
To filter by a list of values, complete the following steps:
- Check the attribute values in the list you want to add to the filter using the following options:
- Click <all> to either check or uncheck all check boxes.
- Check the <all other values> check box to choose values that are not listed.
The number of features for each attribute value is displayed next to the value.
- Optionally, check the Show features without <attribute> values check box to show features that don't have values for the chosen attribute.
Filter by a range of values
When you choose a numeric attribute, a value slider is provided to set the range of filtering.
To filter by a range of values, complete the following steps:
- Adjust the sliders to set the range of values in the filter:
- You can manually set the high and low values of the slider handles in the value boxes to fine-tune the filtering in a scene.
- Set the minimum and maximum values of the attribute filter.
- The minimum and maximum values determine the highest and lowest bounds of the slider.
- Adjusting the minimum and maximum values allows you to narrow or widen the range of filtering values.
- Optionally, check the Show features without <attribute> values check box to show features that don't have values for the chosen attribute.
- Optionally, click Switch to list to switch to filtering by a list of values.
- Optionally, click Switch to slider to filter by a continuous range of values.