Importing large data (.gdb file format, .shp file format) into CityEngine

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07-05-2022 01:08 PM
NithishReddyGundla
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Hello all, I downloaded the road data of a County in San Antonio, Texas from OpenStreetMap as .geojson file format and used geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS Pro and got the .gdb file format. Now, when I'm trying to import this into CityEngine it says the file is too large. My question is: how to import such large data/ files (which is of .gdb, .shp file format) into CityEngine? 

Please let me know, thanks in advance.

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DavidWasserman
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I have found breaking the file up into batches can help, but ultimately a CE scene can run into extent limitations depending on the scale of the region or city. A county might be too large for a single scene and it might warrant processing elsewhere. 
When I run into large scene problems, it helps to either break the region up into districts with script based imports and rule applications or identify whether similar visualizations can be done in Pro with procedural symbols (RPK based visualizations).

David Wasserman, AICP
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