topic Editing 3D points in ArcScene - slow edit actions in 3D Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/editing-3d-points-in-arcscene-slow-edit-actions/m-p/709868#M4255 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am Using ArcScene to visualize and edit four shapefiles of points (channel bottom soundings). It's a useful way to spot blunders from beam divergence or flyers/sinkers. Except it appears to be an inefficient editing environment. Each edit (select and delete a single or few point(s)) takes a surprisingly long time - about 6-8 seconds of hourglass when I select a point (more if a few points) and about 16-20 seconds of hourglass to delete after I hit the delete button.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Each shapefile is 5km long or less with 12k to 60k points. I am running ArcGIS 10.2.1 on a Dual Quad core CPU Xeon workstation with 192 GB of RAM and dual AMD Radeon HD7970 GPUs Data are locally stored on SATA III 6 GB/s drives. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Other than the obvious question of "Is there a way to improve editing speed (dramatically) in ArcScene" I recognize that I may be going a bit beyond what ArcScene is capable of and/or intended for, so I am wondering if anyone has a recommendation for another editing tool that would allow me to visualize and edit the data in 3D, preferably still in shapefile form.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:15:57 GMT AndyRitchie 2014-04-03T18:15:57Z Editing 3D points in ArcScene - slow edit actions https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/editing-3d-points-in-arcscene-slow-edit-actions/m-p/709868#M4255 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am Using ArcScene to visualize and edit four shapefiles of points (channel bottom soundings). It's a useful way to spot blunders from beam divergence or flyers/sinkers. Except it appears to be an inefficient editing environment. Each edit (select and delete a single or few point(s)) takes a surprisingly long time - about 6-8 seconds of hourglass when I select a point (more if a few points) and about 16-20 seconds of hourglass to delete after I hit the delete button.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Each shapefile is 5km long or less with 12k to 60k points. I am running ArcGIS 10.2.1 on a Dual Quad core CPU Xeon workstation with 192 GB of RAM and dual AMD Radeon HD7970 GPUs Data are locally stored on SATA III 6 GB/s drives. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Other than the obvious question of "Is there a way to improve editing speed (dramatically) in ArcScene" I recognize that I may be going a bit beyond what ArcScene is capable of and/or intended for, so I am wondering if anyone has a recommendation for another editing tool that would allow me to visualize and edit the data in 3D, preferably still in shapefile form.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:15:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/editing-3d-points-in-arcscene-slow-edit-actions/m-p/709868#M4255 AndyRitchie 2014-04-03T18:15:57Z