Latest Contributions by ChristopherBrown

Hi Erich, Nice to hear from you. We have just had Esri AU Direction Seminars over here and it always amazes me how well their 3D presentations work using ArcGIS Pro, City Engine and over the web! And when you ask a question to an "expert" usually you get a reply like "...in the next version....!!" Then you go back to the office and try out using your own detailed surface DTM data and everything grinds to a halt. My aerial mapping supplier delivers our DTM's in LAS format as an example last one contained 5,636,024 key points with spacing approx. 2.5m. Source 6cm GSD aerial imagery. Trouble is the comments saying use LASD are well and good but you cannot do any analysis using 3D Analyst tools without converting to a TIN or Raster source, even an Elevation Source in Pro has to be that format! I had to clip using display extents LAS to TIN from the above source. Ended up with 1,320,131 nodes in the TIN! Only an 88 Mb TIN folder. Set it as an Elevation Source in Pro and still took a massive performance hit! Am trying to use a DTM surface then extract nodes to then create another TIN with the DTM nodes plus nodes from a proposed design model. To then use the Polygon Volume tool in 3D Analyst. Already crashed Pro a number of times!!! Anyway onwards and upwards. Regards ... View more

Yep having the same "frustrating" issues! Have a Local Scene projected to MGA Zone 50, GDA94 and using a File Geodatabase Raster Dataset, Cell Size 1mx1m, Uncompressed Size 368.15 MB, LZ77 Compressed Elevation source. ArcGIS Server Image Service is draped on the surface. When the Project file is opened all it does is constantly spin the Drawing with absolutely zero response? Searching Google with "why are ArcGIS Pro Local Scenes so slow?" came up with your (erich) Geonet thread but nothing from Esri? This is using a high spec workstation with SSD, Nvidia GC and 32GB Ram!! Wondering if this could be related to Local Scene and Projected datasets? Chris ... View more

Guarenteed all ArcGIS Desktop users will have a broken data source sometime or another. Server names change, systems get updated. Even when you go to a particular folder containing Map Documents in Catalog and mistakenly click on an mxd the whole application grinds to an inevitable halt! So no option but to open Task Manager and kill ArcMAP process or go make a cup of tea! Would be great if you could enable a background search set to go overnight that will then say "grey out" all map documents with dodgy datasources? ... View more

This is exactly what is needed. What really is happening when that .LYR or .MXD is left or right clicked on in the Folder Connections? Remember when Desktop v10 was launched and one of the new features was being able to hit he escape button on a data map to interrupt the display. Why can't we do this when we do the above to interrupt the data source search? The data sources in my environment over the past 4 years started as Application connections to ArcSDE services on a virtual ArcSDE server using v9.* changing to (recommended by esri) direct connections to SQL server with v10 on a new virtual server and now all direct connections to a virtual SQL server using ArcSDE V10.1. Map docs containing app. and direct connections to multiple geodatabases get broken during this time and so do Layer files. Waiting >15mins when clicking on a LYR or MXD file when you know it is broken but just want to fix it to pointto the same features in a different location is not on? ... View more