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Slow opening drawings

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jfengineering
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Slow opening drawings

Hi everyone.  I've been having problems with my drawing files opening very slowly.  I recently set up a file that has nothing in it except for general notes in MTEXT format just to use as a test file.  The file is a little less than 3MB.  I have purged the file out and deleted all except 2 annotation scales.  The font is ROMANS.  On my machine it is taking about 38 seconds to open from click to active crosshairs.  Man Frustrated   I have a friend whom I've emailed the file to and he is opening in about a "second".  (Which I would expect)

 

I have recently upgraded my system to 64 bit to try and resolve the slow open and performance, but have not seen a noticible improvement.  I was hoping someone could take a look and see if there are any hardware issues that stand out that should be replaced.  AutoCAD C3D R13 is loaded on my C: drive along with my projects.

 

Win 7 Pro 64 bit SP1

MSI 870A-G54 Motherboard

AMD Athlon II X4 645 @ 3.10 GHz

8 GB DDR3, 1333 RAM

WD 1TB Caviar Black SATA 3, 64 MB buff, 7200rpm

EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ (512-P3-N873-RX) GDDR3, 2200MHz, 512MB, PCIe 2.0 x16

(2) 23in HP 2311x monitors @ 1620x1080

 

Anti-virus is turned off

Hardware acceleration on or off makes no difference

 

Wthin 5 seconds the file is open and looks like it's ready to go, then the screen (and crosshairs) blink and, the drawing comes back but it just sits there with the windows circle of death spining for the next 25 seconds.  If you click on the screen during this time AutoCAD goes ghost white and says Not Responding at the top.

JF Engineering, PLLC
Civil3D, Current/Win 10 Pro
MSI MPG X570/AMD Ryzen 5 3.6 GHz
EVGA GTX 1650, 4GB
1TB Samsung 970 M.2
16 GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
2x ViewSonic VX2458 24in Monitors
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Message 2 of 7

Unplug the Ethernet cable and try again...

Message 3 of 7

....OK.... no change.

JF Engineering, PLLC
Civil3D, Current/Win 10 Pro
MSI MPG X570/AMD Ryzen 5 3.6 GHz
EVGA GTX 1650, 4GB
1TB Samsung 970 M.2
16 GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
2x ViewSonic VX2458 24in Monitors
Message 4 of 7

Do you have printers mapped that are no longer on your network?



Todd Rogers
BIM Manager
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Message 5 of 7

Good guess, but unfortunately no.

JF Engineering, PLLC
Civil3D, Current/Win 10 Pro
MSI MPG X570/AMD Ryzen 5 3.6 GHz
EVGA GTX 1650, 4GB
1TB Samsung 970 M.2
16 GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
2x ViewSonic VX2458 24in Monitors
Message 6 of 7

I don't know what template you started from.  Have you run a -purge to remove the registered applicatons, empty text objects and such?  Perhaps if you upload the drawing.



Lisa Pohlmeyer
Civil 3D User
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Message 7 of 7

Thanks I figured it out!

 

I noticed the last time I opened it up that the Prospector window was going blank while it was trying to open.  I got to looking and I had about 12 point groups that wern't linked to anything. (Yellow shield with explanation point)  I deleted them and poof! it opens up like it should!

 

Thanks everyone.

JF Engineering, PLLC
Civil3D, Current/Win 10 Pro
MSI MPG X570/AMD Ryzen 5 3.6 GHz
EVGA GTX 1650, 4GB
1TB Samsung 970 M.2
16 GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
2x ViewSonic VX2458 24in Monitors

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