topic Re: Why is the draw time exceedingly slow when working with an XY dataset? in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833838#M33776 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Quite simple, you had about 102,000 ish blank rows in the text file....</P><P>Try the attached</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 02:26:53 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2019-10-18T02:26:53Z Why is the draw time exceedingly slow when working with an XY dataset? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833837#M33775 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am working with an XY .txt file of a table of 96 points (originally collected in GCS_WGS_1984).&nbsp; They include lat/long columns, as well as several other data columns of various metadata for each point/row.&nbsp; It was added to my blank map (Map is WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_10N) via "add XY data".&nbsp; While it successfully showed up on the map at the expected scale, it was running ran extremely slow and draw times took 10-15 seconds every time I so much as clicked on the layer in the table of contents, or tried to move the map with the "pan" hand.&nbsp; I then tried projecting it from GCS_1984 to the map's coordinate system (as stated above, 1984_UTM_10N) via the "project" tool and exported it to the geodatabase I created for this map.&nbsp; This still has no alleviating effect and the draw times can still be abysmally slow.</P><P></P><P>The machine I am working on has no shortage of horsepower, but that shouldn't be a problem anyway for a map with only a single point data set associated with it.&nbsp; Working on ArcMap 10.7.</P><P></P><P>What am I missing?&nbsp; Any help would be greatly appreciated.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 01:41:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833837#M33775 MichaelMatson 2019-10-18T01:41:02Z Re: Why is the draw time exceedingly slow when working with an XY dataset? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833838#M33776 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Quite simple, you had about 102,000 ish blank rows in the text file....</P><P>Try the attached</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 02:26:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833838#M33776 DanPatterson_Retired 2019-10-18T02:26:53Z Re: Why is the draw time exceedingly slow when working with an XY dataset? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833839#M33777 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I knew it would be something stupid and simple.&nbsp; I blame excel.&nbsp; Thanks so much!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:19:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/why-is-the-draw-time-exceedingly-slow-when-working/m-p/833839#M33777 MichaelMatson 2019-10-18T15:19:20Z