2013 LT Extreemly Slow to open and save drawings

[tronyort86]

Hopefully someone has a solution to my dilema.

I have 2013 on both my work and home office computer. At the office I am running Windows 7 Pro.

Home Office, Windows 7 Home.

At work, I am connected to a server but mostly save and open my drawings from my local drive.

The drawings open and save within 1-3 seconds. The drawings can range in size from 3000-6000 KB with 20-50 layers.

At home, (no network) it takes 45 seconds to 1 minute to open and save the exact same drawing.

While opening the drawing the message is "Formatting text, please wait"  or sometimes the screen turns white and it says "Not Responding"

What could this be??

[Charles_Shade]

Welcome to the Autodesk Forums!

Do you have the same setup and Font files at both locations? Not just the same named Font but make sure the definition is the same.

What about OS, RAM, Graphics at each location?

Aero theme at home and Classic at work?

[Bob_Zurunkle]

OP it might be helpful to hit F2 after the drawing opens, and take a screenshot of the command history to post it here.

[ChuckEdwards]

This link will give you some ideas: http://www.cad-notes.com/2012/12/speed-up-autocad-configuration/

The ones I found myself were changing the SAVEFIDELITY setting, and stopping the InfoCentre from loading. Changing those two saw saves in LT2010 go from c.25 seconds, to a fraction of a second.

[Charles_Shade]

Nice link but is not .25 seconds a fraction of a second? 

[ChuckEdwards]

The use of c. is an abbreviation of latin 'circa', around or about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa 

Not to be confused with 'C' as in the speed of light (E=MC2) or C, the programming language... though saving at light speed would be handy, we're stuck I think with our servers.

Therefore the saveas has gone from circa 25 seconds, to about a quarter of a second.

And I bet you thought you'd never be getting Latin in an Autocad discussion group...

[pendean]

Fancy! I do feel my little pinky rising in the air as I hold my cup of tea right now 🙂

Good tips BTW.

[Charles_Shade]

Excellent! Raising the bar on Educating the banal masses is a hobby of mine.

BTW - What I now understand as a period after the C I took as a decimal in front of the .25.

[ChuckEdwards]

Glad I can help 

And don't forget kids, volunteering is important, and what with the US government shut down, we need to all do our bit....

[KAYMAR]

Brill. Worked for me. Thanks