Scenes and 3D data

The process of creating, publishing, and managing scenes involves different parts of ArcGIS. The table below summarizes these tasks and provides links to help topics with more information. You must have a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment and ArcGIS Pro available to you to complete the described tasks.

Task	Information and instructions	Tips
Create a scene in ArcGIS Pro.	See Scenes in the ArcGIS Pro help.
Configure a scene in ArcGIS Pro.	See Author a web scene in the ArcGIS Pro help.
Publish a web scene to the ArcGIS Enterprise portal.	See Publish 3D layers.	Connect to the portal as a member of a role that has privileges to create, update, and delete content, publish hosted feature layers, and publish hosted scene layers.
Open a hosted 3D layer that has an associated feature layer in Scene Viewer and modify the scene.	See Get started with scenes.	Use a web browser that supports WebGL.
Create and publish an elevation layer.	Scene Viewer in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal contains a default World Elevation Service from ArcGIS Online. However, if you have higher-resolution data that you want to use, you can add your custom elevation surface to a scene in ArcGIS Pro, and publish a web scene to create an elevation layer in your organization. See Elevation surfaces in the ArcGIS Pro help.	If the ArcGIS Enterprise portal is not connected to the internet and you need to publish and set a custom default elevation service for Scene Viewer, the portal administrator can set an elevation service in the organization settings.
Manage backups.	See Manage data store backups in the ArcGIS Enterprise administrator guide.	ArcGIS Data Store relational data store and object store backups grow large quickly when you publish hosted scene layers. Ensure that your data store backup locations are large enough to accommodate the volume of data.
Publish 3D layers that reference a precreated cache	See Publish a 3D layer from a cache dataset.	Connect to the portal as a member of a role that has privileges to create, update, and delete content and publish server-based layers.