AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

Dear Sirs and/or Madams,

I am experiencing a relatively new and maddening AutoCAD problem. If I manipulate any point, or select a point group, or perform ANY action involving points in my drawings, a "Sorting" progress bar appears in the lower left hand corner of the screen, and if it's a drawing with a substantial amount of point data, it can/will lock my computer up. This is driving me bonkers! Can someone explain to me what is going on, and help me find a solution?

Thanks in advance,

ERIK

attached herein is an image of the progress bar.

[#2]

Do you have any surfaces or corridors on Auto-Rebuild?

[#3]

I do, and have always had them in the past, but this is a new problem, as in only about 2 weeks ago.

[#4]

I believe that the sorting message refers to the TIN points within a surface.  The software needs to sort them as part of the surface build process.  Normally the operation is so fast that you never see this message, unless it's a very large surface.  I usually see it with Lidar datasets.

[#5]

This same problem frequently occurs in drawings where my points are not included in a TIN.  I am also going bonkers.  It seems to be a recent problem for me as well.  Is there a point setting that can eliminate the constant sorting?

Sam

[#6]

The points being sorted are not your cogo points in the drawing.  They are the TIN points which are within the surface.

[#7]

I have a drawing with absolutely nothing but the points I just imported in it.  There's a lot of sorting going on.  Seems that getting out of Toolspace stopped the problem, but that's an issue for anyone who does have a surface in their drawing.

[#8]

Was having the same issue, so from the Prospector Toolspace, right click on POINTS, then select "Refresh", I have not had an issue since.

Hope this helps.

Rich