SECTIONPLANE takes regen to 20 min+

[carl.lowrey]

I have a relatively modest 3D file that had a few section planes in it (volume boundaries and some were overlapping). After having problems with slow regeneration (up to 10 minutes) I narrowed it down to a couple of the sectionplanes - once they were deleted the file worked fine.

For the last few weeks I have had only one sectionplane in the file with no problems until today - out to 20 min+ regens! Deleting the sectionplane brought the file back to normal.

I had used the sectionplane earlier in the day to recreate a 2d view but at the time it was not live and was on a frozen layer.

Anyone else had similar problems or could point to a solution?

Purging and auditing the file makes no difference.

The file does have a few flatshot blocks with dimensions and text etc but all well clear of the sectionplane.

I guess this raises another question - How do users use flatshot and 2d sections - keep in the same file or export to a separate 2d layout file?

Would be interested in peoples comments.

Cheers

Carl

[dzatto]

I have a relatively modest 3D file that had a few section planes in it (volume boundaries and some were overlapping). After having problems with slow regeneration (up to 10 minutes) I narrowed it down to a couple of the sectionplanes - once they were deleted the file worked fine.

For the last few weeks I have had only one sectionplane in the file with no problems until today - out to 20 min+ regens! Deleting the sectionplane brought the file back to normal.

I had used the sectionplane earlier in the day to recreate a 2d view but at the time it was not live and was on a frozen layer.

Anyone else had similar problems or could point to a solution?

Purging and auditing the file makes no difference.

The file does have a few flatshot blocks with dimensions and text etc but all well clear of the sectionplane.

I guess this raises another question - How do users use flatshot and 2d sections - keep in the same file or export to a separate 2d layout file?

Would be interested in peoples comments.

Cheers

CarlI've had the same thing happen in ACA2008. I'm using ADT 2007 now because of speed problems that I need to figure out. That was one of them. It wasn't 20 minutes, but instead would almost lock up once I went into the section command. It even took a few minutes just for the dialogue box to open. Very frustrating. I don't have a reason or a fix yet, just wanted to let you know I've had similar problems.