Hi Arthur, thanks for the reply. Yes, I've been on your blog lately but have not run through your exact process, as I'm new to footprint extraction with ArcGIS. I'm on a new hp z640 workstation with 6 physical cores hyper-threaded to 12, 32 GB RAM with 1.2 TB Intel SSD 750 Series PCIe NVMe drive. Running ArcGIS Desktop 10.4.
My initial dataset was just 4,700 buildings. It freezes at 2% complete. I broke it down to 102, and it freezes at 83% complete. I took that down even further to 2 datasets of 51 features each, and they ran through just fine without freezing. I've tried several more datasets and it seems to not process more than around 70 features without freezing.
I've got a case # in with ESRI support and I've done a repair on ArcGIS Desktop. Didn't solve the problem. I sent them my data and they were able to get it to run just fine. I'm running completely local, no network processing. I've also tried running on another workstation and had the same problem. So, I'm wondering if there is some configuration that I'm missing? I've never had any problems with tools before.
Andrew