Latest Contributions by MarcoBoeringa

In ArcGIS Pro 2.4 and above, you have access to the entire CIM (Cartographic Information Model) through Python and ArcPy, that is the foundation for projects and layer objects and styling as saved in an ArcGIS Pro project file (*.aprx) or layer file (*.lyrx): Python CIM access—ArcPy | Documentation  This is a really powerful new way to deal with layers and such. Do take heed of the warnings though, with power, responsibility comes as well, you can easily ruin your project if making modifications! I agree the Describe object can be confusing. I personally see ArcPy also a lot in terms of geoprocessing automation, running and calling tools, not necessarily styling modifications, although it can be done. I think the link Joshua Bixby‌ gave is the best description of some of the issues with Describe. ... View more

Ken Buja schreef: It doesn't look like it. The current status is "Not in Current Product Plan" I am flabbergasted. This is totally incomprehensible. This is core functionality that should not fail and that needs fixing a.s.a.p. if there is a bug affecting it. Kory Kramer‌, could you help raise the priority of this issue? ... View more

Luba Hristova‌, do you know what is the status of this bug, how is it classified in the ESRI bug tracking system? I ran into something similar back in the days in Pro 1.0. This is really a *major* issue that needs fixing a.s.a.p. Things like this are a real PITA when using Pro, and should have top priority fixing. This is core functionality that should not fail. ... View more

If I look at the ArcGIS for Desktop Help and the ArcGIS Pro Help for the 'Buffer' and 'Multiple Ring Buffer' tools, both apps' Help only mention the GEODESIC method for the 'Buffer' tool, not the 'Multiple Ring Buffer' tool, suggesting you cannot create GEODESIC buffers using the 'Multiple Ring Buffer' tool: Buffer—Help | Documentation  Multiple Ring Buffer—Help | Documentation  Buffer—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  Multiple Ring Buffer—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  Are you absolutely sure you were able to create GEODESIC buffers using the 'Multiple Ring Buffer' tool in ArcMap, and you aren't confusing other results with the current ones? ... View more

A bit of a side step, but there is also the concept of a "materialized view", which are views that reside on disk like a normal table, and that can be indexed as an ordinary table (at least in PostgreSQL which I am using, but I guess this is no different in SQL Server). So it would not be entirely surprising for the tool to attempt re-indexing a (materialized) view. ... View more

By the way, ESRI does in fact try to take advantage of multi-threaded processing for the UI as well. If you open the ArcGIS Pro Diagnostic Monitor with Ctrl+Alt+M, you see these small indicators in the lower right corner of the interface, that signify activity on foreground or background threads. The fact that despite this, ArcGIS Pro's user interface still regularly shows deplorable performance for tasks, is a clear indication ESRI could and should try to optimize the underlying code. I am really waiting now for ArcGIS Pro 2.5 being released, as Kory Kramer‌ indicated that it should have at least one major optimization regarding geoprocessing tasks holding up the user interface due to interface refreshes taking an exceptionally long time once a tool is finished. A fact that I also pointed out in another thread myself: ArcGIS Pro: Stop queuing senseless "UI Tasks" (performance issue)  ... View more

As I also wrote for Sean Hlousek, your results regarding the desktop versus your laptop hardly seeing a difference in Pro's performance may not be an entire surprise... Unfortunately, the laws of physics and practicality dictate that increasing single thread performance, which is largely dependent on increased clock speeds, is increasingly difficult. Read this nice article to understand why: Why CPU Clock Speed Isn't Increasing - Make Tech Easier  Writing software to take advantage of multiple cores is certainly possible, but there are many tasks that simply must run in single thread, also related to the software's user interface. Those won't take advantage of increased core count. As you can see from these stats from the Passmark website, your Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 (Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2687W v4 (30M Cache, 3.00 GHz) Product Specifications ) launched in 2016 has a single thread performance slightly less than the five years older desktop Core i7-2600 CPU from 2011, which itself is hardly beaten by a Core i7-7700HQ laptop processor as launched in 2017: Intel Core i7-2600 - Multi-thread stat:8180 / Single-thread:1922, launch year 2011 Intel Core i7-7700HQ - Multi-thread stat:8761 / Single-thread:1991, launch year 2017 Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 - Multi-thread stat:19863 / Single-thread:1894, launch year 2016 Your Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 processor with its many cores, does have quite attractive multi-core performance though ... More than double than my own laptop with Intel Core i7-7700HQ. Any geoprocessing tool using the Parallel Processing Factor geoprocessing environment setting, should run really nicely on your machine! Even more attractive seems the new AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 3970X: AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 3970X - Multi-thread stat:48439 / Single-thread:2935, launch year 2019 But even this monster 32-core 7nm processor only has about 1.5 times the single thread performance of a nine year old Core i7 CPU based on 32nm process die... ... View more

Not to counter your valid arguments, but the processor you use, does seem a peculiar choice for running Pro. Even though it is a relatively recent processor, launched in 2017 (Intel® Xeon® Bronze 3104 Processor (8.25M Cache, 1.70 GHz) Product Specifications ), it has a very poor single thread and also quite marginal multi-threaded performance according to Passmark statistics. Even my much older second generation Core i7-2600 of my home desktop, which launched in 2011 but still runs happily with Windows 10, has double the single thread performance. Funny actually, but my quite recent laptop with a Core i7-7700HQ only marginally beats the nine year old desktop processor...: Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 - Multi-core stat:5685 / Single-thread:972 Intel Core i7-2600 - Multi-core stat:8180 / Single-thread:1922 Intel Core i7-7700HQ - Multi-core stat:8761 / Single-thread:1991 Your processor, also according to the Intel website, seems designed for low-end servers doing light CPU work (but possibly high IO to disks), e.g. running some mail server job, it is definitely not a high-end workstation processor for crunching data. ... View more

Also regularly clear out any geoprocessing "History" in your project if you are an avid tool user. You can quickly collect a lot of junk there that will slow down opening your projects. See example image. ... View more

Related issue: https://community.esri.com/thread/199094-arcgis-pro-convert-labels-to-annotation-hanging  ... View more

Well, as definitive proof of Pro's capability to use a lot of RAM, here is the result of some custom Python scripting in ArcPy that accesses a gigantic 172 M record database table and extracts data for each record. More than 80 GB work memory usage, 24 GB residing in actual physical RAM (laptop with 32 GB RAM). ... View more

Do you also say that knowing the result of those 500+ layers is this?... 😉 ... View more

The biggest RAM usage I have personally seen for Pro, was just over 72 GB! That said, that is with a power users scenario of > 500 layers in the Pro TOC referencing a few dozen database tables, some with > 100M records.... However, please don't let Window's Task Manager fool you. Task Manager only displays a small part of the true memory usage by Pro. Open the Resource Monitor instead (Click on the second Performance TAB of the Task Manager, there should be a link to open it at the bottom of the display), it will show you the true memory usage of Pro, which can be vastly bigger than what the task manager displays. ... View more

I'm holding my breath. Me too, but looking at ESRI's history, they usually only get it right at the third major iteration of the software (ArcView 3.x, ArcGIS for Desktop 10, although some will probably say it never got better after 9.3.x...), so I think I will hold my breath for Pro 3.0 instead... ... View more