topic Re: CityEngine performance expectations? in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525855#M7180 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As far as I know this mostly depends on the complexity of the rules.</P><P></P><P>Do you have complex rules with multiple imports ?</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Matthias Buehler</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><EM><SPAN lang="EN-US">Head of 3D Technologies</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN style="color: #999999; font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">twitter: @MattB3D</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"><BR /></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">-----------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">Garsdale Design Limited </SPAN></P><P><A href="mailto:matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk" target="_blank">matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P><P><A href="http://www.garsdaledesign.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:19:08 GMT MatthiasBuehler 2014-12-18T10:19:08Z CityEngine performance expectations? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525852#M7177 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What should my expectations be of CE performance - I'm using 2014.1?</P><P></P><P>I have Windows XP x64 2003 SP2</P><P>Intel Xeon 2GHz 16GB RAM (24 cores)</P><P>NVidia Quadro K5000 (4GB)</P><P></P><P>I find that it copes ok with the graphical hard work - export models, generate, pan, zoom tend to work tolerably.</P><P>However things like crtl-A to select all can take a couple of minutes, as can accessing an attribute in the Inspector window (I just see a big black square where all the attribute should be until it refreshes).&nbsp; I'm currently trying at export 3500 shapes to a shapefile and I've been waiting 35min so far.....still waiting....nearly finished.</P><P></P><P>I've had problems before with other things in CE but they seem to have been fixed with a change to my network profile, so I'm not sure if this slowness is my machine or CE.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:38:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525852#M7177 BenLeslie1 2014-12-17T09:38:27Z Re: CityEngine performance expectations? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525853#M7178 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hey ..</P><P></P><P>It's not the computer that is slow, it's the Inspector doing all sorts of evaluations (also to refresh it's UI) that take a long time when you select everything.</P><P></P><P>Maybe try closing the Inspector pane and see if that changes things ..</P><P></P><P>Matt</P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Matthias Buehler</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><EM><SPAN lang="EN-US">Head of 3D Technologies</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN style="color: #999999; font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">twitter: @MattB3D</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"><BR /></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">----------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">Garsdale Design Limited </SPAN></P><P><A href="mailto:matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk" target="_blank">matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P><P><A href="http://www.garsdaledesign.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:01:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525853#M7178 MatthiasBuehler 2014-12-17T11:01:17Z Re: CityEngine performance expectations? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525854#M7179 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks, that's helpul - it certainly seems to help when doing a select all.</P><P></P><P>But even when I just select a single shape, with the intention of changing attributes, the inspector can take a while to refresh and I get a big black square instead of the attributes - is this normal, can I do anything to help it?</P><P></P><P><IMG __jive_id="41682" alt="Inspector.jpg" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/41682_Inspector.jpg" style="height: auto;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:46:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525854#M7179 BenLeslie1 2014-12-18T07:46:24Z Re: CityEngine performance expectations? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525855#M7180 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As far as I know this mostly depends on the complexity of the rules.</P><P></P><P>Do you have complex rules with multiple imports ?</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Matthias Buehler</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><EM><SPAN lang="EN-US">Head of 3D Technologies</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN style="color: #999999; font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">twitter: @MattB3D</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"><BR /></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">-----------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">Garsdale Design Limited </SPAN></P><P><A href="mailto:matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk" target="_blank">matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P><P><A href="http://www.garsdaledesign.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:19:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525855#M7180 MatthiasBuehler 2014-12-18T10:19:08Z Re: CityEngine performance expectations? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525856#M7181 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>hmm ok I'll consider that.</P><P></P><P>Prety sure my rules aren't complex - maybe not written in the most efficient way but no imports.</P><P></P><P>I have 18 attributes in my rules - about half are object attributes that come from my shapefile, the others are user defined or rule defined.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:09:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525856#M7181 BenLeslie1 2014-12-18T12:09:53Z Re: CityEngine performance expectations? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525857#M7182 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hmm. ok.</P><P></P><P>Can you maybe do a screen capture video of the behavior ?</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Matthias Buehler</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><EM><SPAN lang="EN-US">Head of 3D Technologies</SPAN></EM><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN style="color: #999999; font-size: 10pt;"><SPAN lang="EN-US">twitter: @MattB3D</SPAN></SPAN><STRONG><SPAN lang="EN-US"><BR /></SPAN></STRONG></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US"></SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">-----------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="EN-US">Garsdale Design Limited </SPAN></P><P><A href="mailto:matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk" target="_blank">matthias.buehler@garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P><P><A href="http://www.garsdaledesign.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.garsdaledesign.co.uk</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:26:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-cityengine-questions/cityengine-performance-expectations/m-p/525857#M7182 MatthiasBuehler 2014-12-18T12:26:31Z