LARGE 3D FILE HANDLING

[emby]

CURRENT PROJECT COMPRISES MULTIPLE 3D MODELS CREATED BY CONSULTANT DESIGNERS. wHEN X-REF'D FILE COLLECTION OF 41 FILES BUILDS A 982KB FILE, WHEN BOUND THIS BECOMES 1.4GB CURRENT SYSTEM VISTA P.C. WITH 16GB RAM 64BIT PROCESSOR. CONCERNED THAT SYSTEM WILL STRUGGLE TO HANDLE FILES WHEN ENGINEERING CO-ORDINATION PROCESS STARTS. NAVIS SIMULAT TAKES 28.4MINS TO OPEN THE XREF'D FILE, SOMEWHAT SLOW.... ANY IDEAS AS TO THE SPEC OF SYSTEM THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED.

[BeKirra]

CURRENT PROJECT COMPRISES MULTIPLE 3D MODELS CREATED BY CONSULTANT DESIGNERS. wHEN X-REF'D FILE COLLECTION OF 41 FILES BUILDS A 982KB FILE, WHEN BOUND THIS BECOMES 1.4GB CURRENT SYSTEM VISTA P.C. WITH 16GB RAM 64BIT PROCESSOR. CONCERNED THAT SYSTEM WILL STRUGGLE TO HANDLE FILES WHEN ENGINEERING CO-ORDINATION PROCESS STARTS. NAVIS SIMULAT TAKES 28.4MINS TO OPEN THE XREF'D FILE, SOMEWHAT SLOW.... ANY IDEAS AS TO THE SPEC OF SYSTEM THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED.

I suggest:
1) you may have to upgrade your pc, OS and AutoCAD version. Vista sounds an out-of-date OS.
2) convert the drawing to recent version may also reduce the file sizes.

[cadtag]

Turn off Capslock, and quit binding!!

[Liamnacuac]

I kind of agree, here. I wounldn't work with bounds drawings if you can avoid it. I know if the past I've had to bind everything before sending the files out, so that we were sure the back grounds were not getting referenced to the wrong file.
About the Capslock, you're obviously an AutoCAD user who is looking at forums while working on drawings. If this were any other type of forum , I'd ask to stop yelling, as well