3DFieldPro

3DFieldPro is an advanced software application whose purpose is to help you create 2D/3D maps of contours (isolines) based on numerical data. You can visualize 4D maps and generate the contours from regular data or scattered points.

You are allowed to add data from scattered (x, y, z) data points, SHP, GPS NIMEA, DXF, GEN, GRD, ASC, DBF, BMP, JPG, PNG, CSV, SLG, and other file formats.

Plus, you can import GPS data (waypoints, tracks, routes and links) from GPS files created with CoPilot Flight Planner, DeLorme, Garmin, GpilotS, GPSPilot Tracker, Magellan NAV Companion, National Geographic Topo, OziExplorer, TomTom, and others.

You can export 3D mesh (surface) and contours with labels to DXF file format, contours as 3D polylines to SHP files, and data points to DXF. Plus, you can save points, contours and drawing lines as waypoints, routes and tracks to GRD files, 2D mesh of triangles to plain text, and 2D/3D mesh of triangles to DXF files.

The utility lets you copy image maps to the clipboard so you can easily transfer them into other programs and print or output maps to EMF, WMF, BMP, JPG, or PNG file format.

3DFieldPro is able to create all sorts of maps, namely black and white or color fill contour, color cells, color points, Direchlet color tessellations, Delauney triangles, color and monotone relief, circle values, color polygons, 3D view relief contour, and OpenGL 3D map with contours and textures.

Plus, you are given the freedom to work with nine different gridding methods, like Inverse Distances, Triangulation, Kriging, Minimum Curvature, Natural Neighbors, Linear System, RBF, MBA, and Zones.

The application lets you opt for an automatic or custom contour interval, ranges and contour lines, and adjust the contour label format, font, frequency and spacing parameters.

Several editing tools can be used for smoothing the contours of lines using splines, slicing the surface, generating pie maps, and automatically digitizing images.

3DFieldPro helps you create graphic plots, define 3D isosurfaces and planes, generate 3D planes, add volume boundary, load a base map over contour maps, and carry out 2D data regression tasks.

All in all, 3DFieldPro provides an impressive number of features for converting data into contour maps, surface or volume plots, and is suitable especially for professional users. On the downside, the GUI is not actually very intuitive and easy to decode, so you may need to reserve some of your time to studying the tool’s set of options.

In case you do not need to work with 4D scattered points, 4D models, and array loading options from plain text files, you can have a look at 3DField.