AutoCAD MEP

[#1]

When adding a piece of conduit or cable tray off of an existing section autocad mep 2013 becomes painfully slow and non responsive for several minutes. Sometimes after the part has been added an the drawings has regenerated the screen will go black and autocad has to be restarted. Does anyone have a solution to speed this up?

[#2]

To be able to help, it would be useful to have a sample file, the 3DCONFIG tuner log, and your system NFO file.  Will be glad to look those over and see if anytrhing stands out.

Joshua

[#3]

Attached is one of the files I have trouble with the most. When i draw the same cable tray and conduit layout in AMEP 2012 there is no lag time waiting for the parts to be added through conduitadd or cabletrayadd commands. The sample drawing is setup with the same style and layers i use in 2012.

My laptop is a

Dell Precision 6500

Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on SP1

Intel Core i7-2760QM @2.40GHz

16 GB Ram

Thanks for the help,

WT

[#4]

wtaylor,

The sample file was not started from an AutoCAD MEP template.  I set the UCS back to World.  Then selected all (CTRL +A).  Start a new drawing from the MEP template "Aecb Model (US Imperial Ctb).dwt" and then paste (CTRL +V).  It asks for insertion point, type 0,0 enter.  Speeds it up.

Joshua

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[#5]

I went through and did as suggested but it doesn't seem to make a diffrence in the speed.

I noticed that  the file seems to work with no issues when the xrefs are unloaded. I have gone through and done an audit and purge on all the xrefs but its still dragging when those are loaded. Have you seen that issue before?

[#6]

Hi,

I do not have copies of the xref files you mentioned.  Were they started from the MEP template?  What do they contain?  Feel free to attach those samples here.

Thanks,

Joshua

[#7]

I think I have resolved the problem for the most part. Once i flipped hardware acceleration off the conduit and cable tray strated responding. It still will have parts disappear when I cancel the conduit command and I have to switch into a different view or close and reopen MEP for them to reappear. Thanks for the help.

[#8]

That's good news.  Sometimes it's the simple suggestions that we overlook in search of some explanation deeper in the program.  Rebooting a computer is a great example of a solution that works all too often and we forget.  The conduit may disappear once in a while and just needs a regen or AecObject Refresh (OBJRELUPDATE command).

Joshua

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