Summary

You have now successfully installed and started to use ArcGIS Pro. So you now have the skills to install and get working with ArcGIS Pro. This new 64-bit hyperthreaded application from Esri provides an effective tool to visualize a range of data, including 2D and 3D. This increased capability does require a greater amount of system resources to run effectively compared with the earlier ArcGIS applications.

In this chapter, you discovered that ArcGIS Pro makes use of a new licensing model, Named Users, in addition to a traditional Single Use or concurrent license. You also learned that ArcGIS Pro Named User licenses are managed through your organization's ArcGIS Online account or Portal for ArcGIS. It was also pointed out that only users in your organization that are creators or professional user types may be assigned an ArcGIS Pro license.

From there, you opened your first ArcGIS Pro project. This provided you with the skills to deal with projects that may contain multiple items, including 2D and 3D maps, but that is just the beginning, as you will learn in later chapters. Once you opened the project, you used the Explore tool to navigate within a map and retrieve information about the features you see.

In the next chapter, you will take a closer look at the ArcGIS Pro user interface. You will examine commonly used tools and where to find them.