Generating A Virtual Campus From Arcview Shapefiles

Using polygon data  for building shapes and height data for individual buildings,  we were able to render a 3D model of campus in Arcview and export it to  VRML 2.0 using the 3D Analyst extension. <-- At left is an example of the data we had available for each building on campus. At right is an image of the polygons before --> they were extruded.

Process:
I added the Basemap.shp shapefile to a new View in Arcview.  In order to generate VRML, I turned on Arcview's 3D Analyst  (Click File -> Extensions -> 3D Analyst).  That added another category to the Project Window: 3D Scene.  I created a new 3D scene, since none existed, and added the themes from our View.  To extrude the buildings into 3D, I selected 3D Properties from the Theme menu.  Under Extrude featured by value or expression, I used [B_ht], the value for each polygon that contains the height data.

This is a wireframe diagram of Gould Simpson as it was generated by Arcview:

This shows the Gould Simpson building after being edited: