MI Enter a Whole New Dimension! V6 3D Map View

[Brown, Christopher (HI Cartographer)]

V6 3D Map View
"Enter a Whole New Dimension!"
"Drape...
Take a complete map - including roads, polygons and raster images - 
and drape it over 3D contours. An unbelievable way to improve everything you
do."
!!!!

The above was taken from the MI v6.0 glossy brochure. The pictures look OK.
Maybe a bit blocky but much better than I can produce!
Has anyone tried to do the same?

I gridded a table of contours (1m Interval) & spot heights digitised from
1:10,000 aerial photography.
I chose the smallest cell size MI would let me. Otherwise the rest of the
settings were default.

Upon creation of the mig file I placed the vector contours and roads over
the grid and created a 3D view.

The draping of the vectors over the grid was so bad it wasn't worth
proceeding. I tried overlaying a 1m resolution raster over the grid and the
same?
Go to 3D view properties and increase the resolution, still the same?

I am going to see if there is any tutorial sample data on the MI6 CD now and
see if I can produce something at least half as good as what is shown on the
brochure!!

Any feedback welcome.

Chris
Chris Brown - Cartographer
Business Operations Planning, Hamersley Iron P/L
152-158 St. George's Terrace,
Perth, Western Australia 6000
GPO Box A42,
Perth, Western Australia 6837
Tel.    +61 8 9327 2176
Fax.    +61 8 9327 2478
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