CUI Speed 2006 v 2007 - your experiences?

[Steve Johnson]

An often-voiced complaint about CUI has been its startup time, i.e. the time between you entering the CUI command and you having a responsive dialogue box on screen. This is supposed to be quicker in 2007, particularly with 2nd and subsequent uses within an AutoCAD session. What are your experiences? Is 2007 CUI startup significantly faster on your system, when using your CUI files?

If you can do an apples-for-apples comparison between 2006 and 2007, I'd be interested to hear about your CUI startup times. I'll get you started with my experiences.

PC specs: dual core P4 3.0 with 1GB RAM.

2006:
1st: 12 secs
Other: 3 secs

2007:
1st: 8 secs
Other: 4-6 secs

That's when using my production menu structure. I should point out that when using a vanilla menu system, 2007 is significantly quicker after the first startup: I see times in the 1 to 1.5 second range.

FYI, my menu structure goes like this:

Main:
WC_MAIN
|-- WC_USER
|-- (Other custom partials loaded as reqd)

Enterprise:
WC_ENTERPRISE
|-- ACAD (untouched)
|-- EXPRESS (untouched)
|-- WC_GEN (most of our custom stuff is in here)
|-- WC_SHEET

Thanks in advance for any responses.

[jpaulsen]

I am finding that 2007 is slower than 2006.

With my custom CUI structure I got the following times:

2006
1st: 12sec
other: 5sec

2007
1st: 13sec
other: 11sec

My custom CUI structure is similar to yours.

Main:
USER
|-- (no partials for test)

Enterprise:
ACAD
|-- COMPANY
|-- EXPRESS
|-- RASTERDESIGN

I found the times with the out-of-the-box CUI structure to be 3 sec the 1st time the CUI is opened and 1 sec for subsequent times.

[Steve Johnson]

Thanks! Anyone else?

[Rico]

Thanks! Anyone else?
I'm finding 2007 to be more tedious than 2006. i've alreadyhad about a alf dozen crashes and it hiccups so often i've gone back down to 2006.

It's definitely slower than 2006