frustrated, please help

[Anonymous]

i am working on an 11meg file. there are 5 corridors and about 130 cross sections. the surface is data referenced into the file and the linework is xrefed. it takes four and a half minutes to change from on paperspace tab to another. a save takes half a minute or more. i do not think the file is an unreasonable size as i have worked on many that were much larger. i am attributing the lack of speed to the fact that everything is linked together - the corridor model, the alignments, profiles, profile views, sections, section views, etc.

am i doing this wrong? is there a better way? how can i make this faster? if it is related to the linking of all the entities, can i change the settings to update, less frequently, or on demand, something...anything???????

c3d sp2 hf2
p4 3ghz, 2gb ram, nvidia geforce 6800 gs.

[nzeeben]

What anti virus are you using. I have seens some impressive performance gains by setting and exception in my realtime scan for dwgs.

[Anonymous]

I haven't done any X-sections in a while. Can you not do them in another
drawing file? 130 sections will eat you up.

Bill

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i am working on an 11meg file. there are 5 corridors and about 130 cross
sections. the surface is data referenced into the file and the linework is
xrefed. it takes four and a half minutes to change from on paperspace tab
to another. a save takes half a minute or more. i do not think the file is
an unreasonable size as i have worked on many that were much larger. i am
attributing the lack of speed to the fact that everything is linked
together - the corridor model, the alignments, profiles, profile views,
sections, section views, etc.

am i doing this wrong? is there a better way? how can i make this faster?
if it is related to the linking of all the entities, can i change the
settings to update, less frequently, or on demand,
something...anything???????

c3d sp2 hf2
p4 3ghz, 2gb ram, nvidia geforce 6800 gs.

[Anonymous]

symantec - i will try setting an exception for 'dwg'

[Anonymous]

i thought about that. of course, i have gone through and added labels to each section already. if i try and set up as a new dwg, i will have to redo all of them...right? is there a way to copyclip the labels, or even better, a way to set up the section view to auto add the labels (one for invert of sanitary, one for r.o.w., one for top of curb, one for gutter)?

[Anonymous]

Or try this:
http://tinyurl.com/zymfw

sm

Scott McEachron
DC CADD, Dallas - Fort Worth, TX

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symantec - i will try setting an exception for 'dwg'

[Anonymous]

Sure, modify the codes label styles at these locations for the appropriate
subassemblies...

sm

Scott McEachron
DC CADD, Dallas - Fort Worth
http://c3dpavingtheway.blogspot.com/


wrote in message news:5109653@discussion.autodesk.com...
i thought about that. of course, i have gone through and added labels to
each section already. if i try and set up as a new dwg, i will have to redo
all of them...right? is there a way to copyclip the labels, or even better,
a way to set up the section view to auto add the labels (one for invert of
sanitary, one for r.o.w., one for top of curb, one for gutter)?

[Anonymous]

If you do a saveas ".dwg" and leave the cross sections in place, will this
not work? Go back to your original and eliminate the sections. Now, keep
in mind I haven't tried this.

Bill

wrote in message news:5109653@discussion.autodesk.com...
i thought about that. of course, i have gone through and added labels to
each section already. if i try and set up as a new dwg, i will have to redo
all of them...right? is there a way to copyclip the labels, or even better,
a way to set up the section view to auto add the labels (one for invert of
sanitary, one for r.o.w., one for top of curb, one for gutter)?

[Anonymous]

i could...the only drawback at that point would be that when the corridor model is changed in the original, it would have to be similarly changed in the cross section drawing. also, assuming that i left the corridors, etc. in tact in the 'new' drawing, it would then become the slow one.

i could do a data reference and remove the alignments, corridor models, etc. from the new x-section.dwg, but then i would end up having to redo the sections anyway in order to point to the data reference. also, it doesn't seem to be possible to create a data shortcut to the corridor, so, my data would have to come from the alignment and the surface exported from the corridor. at that point, i no longer have the assembly in section view...ACK!

i feel as though i am banging my head against a wall.

let me pose this...
way back in release 9, 10, 11 or 12 (i don't remember which) there was an issue with the number of viewports that could be used as related to performance...i have 9 per paper space tab, could there be a problem with that? is that an unreasonable number of vp's?

thanks to all for your time in this thread!