Terrain Memory Usage (Environment setting)

Tools that honor the Terrain Memory Usage environment control memory use during analysis on terrains.

This option influences the block size used by terrain during analysis. The default lets the software decide how many tiles it can group together as a block. If you select this option, the terrain block size is forced to be equal to the terrain tile size.

Usage notes

Dialog syntax

Minimize memory use during analysis on terrains

Scripting syntax

arcpy.env.terrainMemoryUsage = boolean_option

Parameter

Explanation

boolean_option

Specifies whether or not to minimize memory usage. The default is False.

terrainMemoryUsage syntax
import arcpy

# Set the terrainMemoryUsage environment to True.
arcpy.env.terrainMemoryUsage = True

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3/3/2014