Regenerating too sloooooooow!

[qball]

Acad 2010, current updates applied.

I have a drawing that is about 3.3MB. I use quite a few blocks and sometimes xclipped blocks within other blocks (if that's relevant), and I use paperspace viewports on my layouts.

A layout with 11 viewports takes over a minute to load the layout. More viewports, longer wait.

If i go into a viewport, edit a block and save the block it takes seemingly forever to load the screen again.

I turned REgenauto OFF because the program would actually crash sometimes.

I believe that utilizing paperspace is quite common, but is everyone's this slow? Anything I can do to fix it?

[ReMark]

Is your computer up to the task spec-wise?

[lpseifert]

If it's mainly a problem when switching layouts, try mucking with the Layout Regen Options in Options. Also be sure you don't have a bloated Scalelist.

[qball]

graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 (1 GB)

Dell Vostro 430

Intel Core i7

2.96 GB Ram

 

I just did MAXVP and it took over 5 minutes to regenerate. I'm checking on the other computers in the office.

[qball]

is Scalelist a system function or only pertain to each file? I don't want to delete a bunch that I need to use in a different file and have to re-create them.

[lpseifert]

Scalelists are drawing specific...

if you have an extraordinary amount of scales (50-100+) try this

  Quote

Command: -SCALELISTEDIT

Enter option [?/Add/Delete/Reset/Exit] : R

Reset scale list to defaults? [Yes/No] : Y

Scale list reset to default entries.

Enter option [?/Add/Delete/Reset/Exit] : E

[nukecad]

  qball said:

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A layout with 11 viewports takes over a minute to load the layout. More viewports, longer wait.

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11 viewports?

 

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I've never had more than 4 or 5 on the same drawing.

(4 or 5 different viewport scales).

 

I have seen drawings where the drafter has drawn things all over modelspace and then used lots of viewports to get them together in paperspace but this seems a long way round to me.

[ReMark]

The most I ever had was 16 viewports in a single drawing. Normally it's around 8.

[qball]

I think I am finished with multiple viewports.... too troublesome. With the complicated jobs I need to draw large sections and do blow-up details of it in multiple areas.

The alternative is make the large sections into blocks and then xclip all the smaller parts onto a single sheet with a single viewport.

Oh well, I thought I was doing the right thing. Apparently Autocad disagrees.

[ReMark]

Can't say I ever had any problems using viewports within my layouts. I must be lucky.