Latest Contributions by tigerwoulds

I am building a large terrain dataset (roughly 2000 square miles) in ArcGIS Pro and need some advice on how to speed things up. I've ran through this article on Fundamentals of Building Large Terrains. The terrain will have 6 pyramid levels and span two counties so I've divided my multipoints into quadrants. My plan is to build the first terrain, the append the next set of multipoints and rebuild. Then continue this till all the multipoints have been incorporated into the terrain. I started the first process and the speed of the Build Terrain tool is going extremely slow. Looks like it will take multiple weeks to build one quadrant. I have 64GB ram available on my machine but Pro is only using about 3. Anything I can do to speed up the process? Given an unlimited budget (just an example here) , can someone give a basic breakdown of what ideal specs a computer should have for building a large terrain? My IT guys mentioned they can create a VM with beefed up specs or possibly purchase a machine strictly for terrain processing. I'd like to give them some 'best case' scenarios and work from there. Thanks! ... View more

I'm working on a large terrain that will span two counties in Texas, roughly 2000 square miles. LiDAR is currently being processed into multipoints in a File Geodatabase. Are there any benefits to building the terrain in the File Geodatabase vs Enterprise Geodatabase? The terrain will have 6 pyramid levels and around 150 GB of data. I've heard building in the fgdb and migrating to egdb runs quicker. My computer has a 6 core Intel i7 CPU with 16 GB RAM. Will increasing RAM or anything else improve the build time?  ... View more

Having some issues building a model to batch convert LAS files to Multipoints in ArcGIS Pro 2.6. I'm trying to loop through a folder with LAS files, and create a separate multipoint feature class for each LAS file. I've writing the output to a file gdb with %Name% as the inline variable substitution.  I have a model with the Iterate Files connected to the LAS to Multipoint tool. The model doesn't work and returns an error that the input parameter is not a folder.  If I right-click the LAS to Multipoint tool and run in in batch mode, 'Input File' is not an option as the batch parameter. What's interesting is that this model works exactly as set up in ArcMap. Any reason why the functionality wasn't ported over to Pro? Or I'm missing something obvious...any advice is appreciated, thanks! ... View more