Complete slow down of CAD

[Statler]

Acad 2004

I am working on drawings with two or more x-refs in (for a bit of back ground)

The problem is when selecting items to edit/move etc.

If the item is sellected directly or edited using hot grips then all is well.

If a window selection is used then it can take an age, probably only a minute max to give me my first pick point and the same again for the second.

I have looked at the task manager and ram and processor are not maxin' out.

Has anybody come accoss this before?

Many ThanX


Richard

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

What is the system variable XLoadCtl set to -

Options -> Open and Save tab -> Demand load Xrefs drop-down box (Middle, Right hand-side)

If it's not "Enabled with Copy" try setting it to that.

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Check out the following Technical Documents on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS36493 - Possible causes of slow drawing performance (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2886572&linkID=2475323)

ID: TS71845 - Pointer performance over xref is slow (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2890527&linkID=2475323)

ID: TS84775 - Slow selection of objects in drawing containing TrueType® fonts (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=4366081&linkID=2475323)

ID: DL4301285 - Selecting multiline text that uses TrueType® fonts slows performance (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=4301285&linkID=2475161)

ID: TS19275 - Improving performance when picking objects or regenerating drawing (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2896135&linkID=2475323)

ID: TS75554 - Performance impact when toolbar transparency on (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2998499&linkID=2475323)

ID: TS14972 - Improve software performance (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2895328&linkID=2475323)

ID: TS40633 - WHIPARC system variable explained (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2871953&linkID=2475323) (I only include this one as WhipArc caused me issues/problems when I enabled it)

ID: TS20895 - Creating spatial and layer indexes (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2878613&linkID=2475323)

Have a good one, Mike

[Statler]

Thanks mike

It looks like it is a combination of several of your hints.

The moss model has produced alot of points so that will slow things down.

The main culprit seems to be that some one at a point way back in time hase used the Arial font and the fix of replacing the dswhip.dll file has significantly sped up the process.

At some point I will need to remove all references to the Arial font as from distant recolection its very memory intesive ( unless anybody want to disagree and save me the tedium of this task)

Regards

Richard

[Aubrey.kieren]

I agree on the Arial font issue.
I try to avoid any true-type font and stick to the AutoCAD shipped fonts.
Generally use ROMANS where I can. To get variations I change things like "oblique angle", etc.
Had lots of problems in past of TT fonts being very memory hungry!

..::KIEREN::..

[rstiles]

well i have had a problem that is similar and i was wondering if it has to do with the true text. i ran into this problem like a week ago on a new drawing i copy in some text from a word document into mtext and when ever i went to scale or select or move the text it would slow down. so went to change the font ikt was brought in as time new roman from word and so i changed it to city blue print-(comes with cad) but i did not notice any improvment. is this related?

[Mike.Perry]

so went to change the font ikt was brought in as time new roman from word and so i changed it to city blue print-(comes with cad) but i did not notice any improvment.
Hi

As far as I'm aware CityBluePrint does not ship with Core AutoCAD.

As far as I'm aware CityBluePrint is a standard Windows True-Type Font.

Try changing any Text that uses True-Type Fonts to native AutoCAD Fonts (.SHX) and see it that helps.

Have a good one, Mike

[rstiles]

thank you ill give that a shot. i was sure that it came with it but i could be wrong.

thank you
-russ

[Opie]

Hi

As far as I'm aware CityBluePrint does not ship with Core AutoCAD.

As far as I'm aware CityBluePrint is a standard Windows True-Type Font.

Try changing any Text that uses True-Type Fonts to native AutoCAD Fonts (.SHX) and see it that helps.

Have a good one, Mike
I realize this is an old thread, but the first time I had ever heard of the CityBluePrint and CountryBluePrint fonts was on a machine with Core AutoCAD. It was an SHX file at that time.