viewport display and printing problem

[jkipfer]

I've used the SSM on my current project to organzie about 100 drawings. I create sheets, plot, open, etc. all from the SSM. Only on this one drawing I am having problems. I have attached 11 named views onto my sheet. Each of these views is from a separate x-ref. The file size of my sheet file is 877Kb. AutoCAD only displays a few of these viewports at a time. I have to click into ea. viewport and regen in order for the ones not displaying to display. Also, it takes over 10 minutes to print an 11x17 of this sheet (from our fastest computer). My computer just hangs - I've not yet managed to get a print from my computer. The viewports also continually display bits of info that they shouldn't (frozen layers) until they are regenerated. Upon zooming or panning around in the drawing, they revert back to displaying bits and pieces of frozen layers.

Has anyone had these problems with viewport display and printing?

Thanks,

Jason

[jkipfer]

I should also mention that often, when the viewport displays nothing, if I select the viewport and 'list', it tells me that the viewport is on but inactive. Often I cannot even click into the viewport. It lists the scale factor, so it knows that it's a viewport, but it doesn't behave like one.

Jason

[richardspragge]

Have you set maxactvp to 64 ? do you have more than 64 view ports on 100 dwgs ?
you may be pushing your luck.

I have had similair problem but with a dwg having 23 paperspace tabs on it. did you find a soluition that may help me?

rich

[jkipfer]

I never did resolve that issue. I just had to live with it to get the project out the door. I'm not aware of a limitation to 64 viewports or less over a sheet set. Each sheet will typically have at least one view on it, so I have projects with hundreds of viewports throughout the sheet set. The problem was only with one of the sheets - and not even one of the last ones I created. It could have been something to do with the xref.

[Chris.N]

I never did resolve that issue. I just had to live with it to get the project out the door. I'm not aware of a limitation to 64 viewports or less over a sheet set. Each sheet will typically have at least one view on it, so I have projects with hundreds of viewports throughout the sheet set. The problem was only with one of the sheets - and not even one of the last ones I created. It could have been something to do with the xref.
as far as i know, the viewport variable is relevant to each layout, not the project as a whole.

[Chris.N]

Have you set maxactvp to 64 ? do you have more than 64 view ports on 100 dwgs ?
you may be pushing your luck.

I have had similair problem but with a dwg having 23 paperspace tabs on it. did you find a soluition that may help me?

rich
in SSM, i did find out that you can IMPORT multiple layouts from a single dwg file into SSM, (from a sub) but when i thought about it, it seemed cumbersome to even try to set up a standard to do so compared to the setup i have now anyway. it also seems too much like putting all the eggs in one basket as well. ~shudder~ what if the file got corrupted? your whole project just got trashed.....