AutoCAD MEP

[#1]

I have recently installed AutoCad2013 and I am disappointed in how slow the open and save is.  Is there anyway I can increase the speed?

[#2]

Are you using the electrical portion?

not having your panelboards or luminare schedules in the drawing with the ccts helps.

but it is still slow

[#3]

Do you have it to automatically save down to 2010-2012 version?  I was doing that and the save times were terrible.  I changed it back to default to 2013 and it's back up to speed again.  

[#4]

I am having the same issue with the insanely slow save time.  I tried setting the default save format as 2013.DWG, and that just seemed to make it a hundred times worse.  I have been sitting at 3% saved for about 20 minutes now.  Any other ideas or solutions that won't completely lock up my AutoCADD?

[#5]

Check the following link and see if it helps your saving times.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Visual-LISP-AutoLISP-and-General/CACHEMAXFILES-1-makes-DELETE-and-SAVE...

Good luck!

[#6]

This is just a guess but are you syncing to the 360 cloud when you open and save?  I am not sure if this will cause it or not.

[#7]

I have tried everything mentioned, and nothing helped at all.

[#8]

I am not using the cloud, and i have to clean up my cache files every so often anyways, or CADD will error on startup every month or so.  Not sure why all the sudden my save time went from 2 seconds to 10 minutes.  By the time it is finished saving, i have another autosave coming up.

[#9]

I have not been able to find a fix to the problem.  Aparently Autodesk just doesn't know-OR DOESN'T CARE. This is costing me hours of work time every day.  DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUE WHY IT TAKES 20 MINUTES TO SAVE ANYTHING? I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE HAVING THIS ISSUE IN OUR OFFICE.  WE ARE NOT USING ELECTRICAL ELEMENTS, AND NONE OF THE OTHER SUGGESTIONS WILL HELP EITHER! ANYONE? HELP!

[#10]

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perhart wrote:

I have not been able to find a fix to the problem.  Aparently Autodesk just doesn't know-OR DOESN'T CARE. This is costing me hours of work time every day.  DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUE WHY IT TAKES 20 MINUTES TO SAVE ANYTHING? I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE HAVING THIS ISSUE IN OUR OFFICE.  WE ARE NOT USING ELECTRICAL ELEMENTS, AND NONE OF THE OTHER SUGGESTIONS WILL HELP EITHER! ANYONE? HELP!

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I have no idea if you have a setting off somewhere, or your computer has an issue.  I don't know.  Maybe if you're saving to a server, it's having issues.   I do know that If I was having to deal with 20 minute saves, I think I'd have to try a full rebuild.  I'd back up my computer and then wipe it and install a clean OS version.  I'd then reinstall Autocad 2013 and see if that helps.

Also... Autodesk is rolling out the 2014 verions of their products over the next week or so.  So maybe wait until the new 2014 versions come out and then uninstall 2013 completely, and install 2014.