https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/leverage-parallel-processing-for-build-terrain/idi-p/1011319 <P>Often when building large terrain datasets, the processing time can be very long. Upwards of 2-4 weeks for a county wide terrain dataset derived from LiDAR.&nbsp;</P><P>It would be great if we could leverage parallel processing in this tool. I have a machine with an i7 CPU and 64 GB RAM and the terrain build for a county wide dataset takes at least 14 days. At most, ArcGIS Pro utilizes 3 GB of RAM until phase 3 of the tool where it jumps to about 18 GB.&nbsp;</P><P data-unlink="true">I've gone through this doc on <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/terrains/best-practices-for-building-terrain-datasets.htm" target="_self">Best Practices of Building Large Terrain Datasets</A>&nbsp;and <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/terrains/building-large-terrain-datasets.htm" target="_self">Fundamentals of Building large Terrain Datasets</A>.</P><P>Good info here but I've found that building terrains in pieces doesn't always work. I've often gotten error 99999 when try to append multipoints so I ultimately build my terrain all at once using all my multipoints.&nbsp;</P><P>I have 64GB of RAM and a good CPU on my machine, I would love if Pro could utilize this for the Terrain Build tool!</P> Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:27:06 GMT tigerwoulds 2021-04-25T21:27:06Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/leverage-parallel-processing-for-build-terrain/idi-p/1011319 <P>Often when building large terrain datasets, the processing time can be very long. Upwards of 2-4 weeks for a county wide terrain dataset derived from LiDAR.&nbsp;</P><P>It would be great if we could leverage parallel processing in this tool. I have a machine with an i7 CPU and 64 GB RAM and the terrain build for a county wide dataset takes at least 14 days. At most, ArcGIS Pro utilizes 3 GB of RAM until phase 3 of the tool where it jumps to about 18 GB.&nbsp;</P><P data-unlink="true">I've gone through this doc on <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/terrains/best-practices-for-building-terrain-datasets.htm" target="_self">Best Practices of Building Large Terrain Datasets</A>&nbsp;and <A href="https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/terrains/building-large-terrain-datasets.htm" target="_self">Fundamentals of Building large Terrain Datasets</A>.</P><P>Good info here but I've found that building terrains in pieces doesn't always work. I've often gotten error 99999 when try to append multipoints so I ultimately build my terrain all at once using all my multipoints.&nbsp;</P><P>I have 64GB of RAM and a good CPU on my machine, I would love if Pro could utilize this for the Terrain Build tool!</P> Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:27:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/leverage-parallel-processing-for-build-terrain/idi-p/1011319 tigerwoulds 2021-04-25T21:27:06Z