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AutoCAD for MAC 2013 running slow

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Message 1 of 61
JohnRennie
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AutoCAD for MAC 2013 running slow

Is anyone else's 2013 running like a dog?

 

It seems to park itself for a few seconds in between commands (especially zooming or panning) and I get my spinning disc symobol on the screen while it sorts itself out.

 

It was like a slow server connection, but I tried working direct off my hard disk and it was just the same.

 

I've reverted back to 2012 meantime, but it would be interesting to see if anyone else has issues.

 

The mac I'm running is fairly hi spec (iMac Intel Core i7 + 12MB RAM)

 

 

 

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Message 2 of 61
maxim_k
in reply to: JohnRennie

Hi John,

 

Have not seen such issue in my practice. Maybe the case is in specific drawing file?

On the contrary, the screen redraw speed in AutoCAD 2013 has become much faster, than in AC 2012.


(MacBookPro5,2, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz, 8Gb RAM)

 

Maxim


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Message 3 of 61
JohnRennie
in reply to: JohnRennie

Hi Maxim,

 

I've tried on a few drawings and still getting same delays happening.

It seems to be a 1/2 second delay after each command for some reason.

 

 

 

 

Message 4 of 61
maxim_k
in reply to: JohnRennie

Hi John,

 

With AC 2011 I had such problems too, but they gone after replacing HDD. During replacement process I cloned my old HDD to the new one with SuperDuper (as a result of cloning HDD was defragmented - may be this helped, don't know really....)

I also have noticed that if I have Autosave time setting with short period of time (1 min), than during autosave I can see "beachball" effect on large files.

 

Maxim


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Message 5 of 61
HawkAIA
in reply to: maxim_k

For me, some things are faster.  For example, execution of Lisp routines and updating xrefs are great.  However, I am experiencing slow-downs.  The offset command is now a dog, and I wish I could turn that stupid offset preview off. I also experience annoying delays on some pan and zoom operations using legacy commands.  Pan and zooms using gestures don't seem to have a problem.   I've only been using it for a couple of days, so I need more time with it.  I have not experienced anything like you are describing, though.  Maybe your installation got corrupted.

 

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Hawk

Message 6 of 61
HawkAIA
in reply to: HawkAIA

Forgot to mention - the erase command hangs at the end of each deletion, like it is pausing to update the database.  Incredibly annoying.

Message 7 of 61
jason.b_0466
in reply to: JohnRennie

Yes, mine is too. Installed about a week ago and it has become progressively slower.

I'm using a brand new super dooper high spec Dell; so no issues on the hardware front.

I am on the verge of going back to 2012, virtually no difference anyway.

I have to say 2013 is a very uninspiring update, questionable whether it is worth installing or not.

Message 8 of 61
carl.bailey
in reply to: HawkAIA

I'm getting the same problem with erase.  Spinning wheel of death for 5 seconds after each erase comand.  It's unusalbe. 

Carl (MacBookAir I5. 4GB Ram)

Message 9 of 61
JohnRennie
in reply to: JohnRennie

I'm giving 2013 another go and so far it seems to be coping ok, but only when I'm working on smaller graphical drawings.

 

I did notice that it seemed to drop out when I was hatching. i.e everytime I clicked a new hatch boundary there would be a long pause before it would let me click a new boundary.

 

Message 10 of 61
wepaskerian
in reply to: JohnRennie

I am having major issues with the software running slow.  It will take up to 5 minutes to execute a command.  I am reverting back to 2012 version.  I am running a quad i7 woth 8 gig of mem.  

Message 11 of 61
HawkAIA
in reply to: carl.bailey

After a few more days of use, the problem seems to be with entity creation and deletion.  All of the entity creation commands, such as line, circle, polygon, hatch etc. have a lag time after the specific object is created - like it is writing the new entity to the database.  The lag for me is around 1 to 2 seconds.  On the line command, the lag happens after each and every segment is created.  Most of the entity modifier commands work without the lag, although I have noticed a lag sometimes on the trim command.  The erase command has a lag after selection and hitting enter to delete the selected items - again like it is pausing to update the database.   The lag does seem to get worse the longer the program is open, like the memory leak problems in the original r2011 version.  Another key point is that the lag does not appear to happen, or happens with a much, much smaller delay, on files with few or no objects.  The more compicated the drawing file, the more predominant the delay becomes.  The other thing is that my delays are all happening on files that I created in the previous version.  Since I just got the program, I have not created a drawing from scratch.  I'll try that today and see what happens.  The new version of the program is essentially unusable for serious production with these lag time issues. 

Message 12 of 61
HawkAIA
in reply to: HawkAIA

There is definitely a speed difference working on a new drawing in 2013, versus opening a large drawing created on a previous version (2012).  The lagging is not noticeable on a new drawing - it's still pretty small with no text, though.

Message 13 of 61
neiders
in reply to: JohnRennie

For me large models compared to max12 are much slower. I have Nvidia quadro 2000 videocard and 12 core cpu

Message 14 of 61
rmfarkas
in reply to: JohnRennie

For what it's worth.  Running AutoCAD LT 2013 for Mac on a MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 16 GB RAM (I know its not officially supported), no graphics switching - AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB graphics and a 256 GB SSD with TRIM support enabled.  Very slow with many spinning beachballs.  Happens whether I open a 4GB file or a 250 MB file.

Message 15 of 61
wepaskerian
in reply to: rmfarkas

I went back to 2012. No problems. Eric Paskerian [cid:6294CDA7-E04B-4558-804E-DEEFF4C7C13F] WEP Engineering & Consulting Co 26 Sandra Ln Reading, MA 01867 O 978.662.1655 F 978.662.3212
Message 16 of 61

Hi John and others

 

Yes, we are having very similar problems.  We have upgraded from four old PC's running Autocad LT2007 to four new iMac 27" core i5 2.7GB with 1TB HD and 8 GB RAM running Autocad LT2013.  Installation by the local Mac/Autocad specialist.

 

Very many commands were just "hanging" there, with the spinning disk remaining there for a long time.  The Activity Monitor said that there was virtually no free space on the hard drive when Auotcad was open. 

 

In an attempt to solve the problem, we upgraded to 16GB RAM.  It's better, but still nowhere near as good as 2007LT on the old PC's.  This problem is the same on any sized drawing, and it does not matter whether the drawing is on the iMac or the server.  Most commands still "hang" but not too many spinning disks now.

 

We  were wondering about changing to 2012.

 

Any thoughts anyone?

 

Regards

 

Peter

 

 

Message 17 of 61

I had the same issues and went back to acad 2012 for mac from the app store. I found it works pretty well. Another less expensive alternative put parallels on th emacs and continue with pc based system. I still use the PC based autocad 2011 LT and 2013 LT. Both programs work well with minimal issues. Eric Paskerian [cid:0DEA1E97-7798-4820-A0BF-64EED771F9E2] WEP Engineering & Consulting Co 26 Sandra Ln Reading, MA 01867 O 978.662.1655 F 978.662.3212
Message 18 of 61
JohnRennie
in reply to: HawkAIA

I'm still struggling with 2013 and have now tried it out on a brand spanking new iMac 3.4GHz Core i7 with 20GB of RAM and a 2GB AMD radeon HD 6970M graphics card.

 

It is still the same and I still get the annoying delays between commends. I've also had some hardware crashes while working in AutoCAD so I'm thinking that maybe AutoCAD is causing the graphics card to fail in some way and causing the crashes??

 

I've logged the problem with Autodesk help desk but all I have so far is a lame responce asking me to delete cache files, installing tools to cool the CPU, etc.

 

They did however ask for a sceenshot movie, but I'm not sure how to provide this from a mac without installing paid software. Does anyone have any ideas?

Message 19 of 61
HawkAIA
in reply to: JohnRennie

ScreenFlow has a demo version.  I think it puts a watermark on the movie.

 

I have not had any speed problems when I create a new drawing in 2013.  I continue to have lag problems when working on drawings created in 2012.  I'm pretty sure it is a memory leak, because it gets worse the longer I have the program open.

Message 20 of 61
maxim_k
in reply to: JohnRennie

Hi JohnRennie,

 

You can use "QuickTime Player.app", just select File->New Screen Recording and follow instructions. I use it as absolutely free screen capture application. After it creates .MOV file I use "MPEG Streamclip.app" to convert screen capture to .MP4 format (the file size gets smaller).

 

BTW, I observe this topic for a long time, and for me it would also be interesting to see these delays between commands, that you are experiencing. Personally I have never seen such delays in this version of AutoCAD. Another matter - delays when switching between open files, which begin to appear after 2-3 hours of work - yes I have such problem. And I can agree with john, that this is the result of "memory leaks".

 

Maxim


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