Wind Farm hardstandi​ng grading, soooo slow

[MartinC3D]

Hi guys. I am working on a wind farm, it isnt particularly big, it has 14 Turbines. I am having a problem with the grading on the hardstands, its taking so long to make amendments, or add gradings. I have all 14 surfaces on the same drawing. Should I have a seperate DWG for each hardstand and use data shortcuts for each? I just thought that would be overkill, but starting to think that would have been a better way of working. (I actually have a seperate data shortcut for each hardstandsurface). Just a pain flicking between DWG's. But probably quicker doing that than waiting for the computer to process doing it the way I have done. Wondering what others have done with wid farm hardstandings?

Regards
Martin

[jpaulsen]

How many points are in your surfaces? I have a proposed surface for a 160 acre site that contains about 40,000 points and about 30 grading objects and the performance is fine. My system is not optimal either: Core 2 duo E8400 3.00GHz w/ 4 GB ram running Win 7 64bit.

I have noticed if you use a lot featurelines with arc segments that contain a lot of elevation points the performance really takes a hit. That statement applies to 2009, not sure if the same problem persists in 2012.

[mjfarrell]

I would suggest that using shortcuts might be a better approach.
However I would also like to see the data to evaluate the performance on my system for a reference point.
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