ARCHITECTURE 2010 / PROJECT NAVIGATOR / DRAWING ON NETWORK SERVER

[orosario]

Presently we using Project Navigator / Architecture 2010 and all of our drawings are in the Server dedicated to our department.

We work for a Residential Developer, so our plans are not too complicated.

Each Computer has Architecture 2010 (ACA) installed. They run Window XP Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3 GHz 4GB Ram, and double monitor. I believe we are within the Software requirements.

Only one our Project Managers use 2008 and he doesn't use Project Navigator.

There are times in which all computers run extremely slow.

Are there any suggestions on how to improve the speed?

If you need additional information, please notify me.

Thanks to All for any help that you can provide;

Orlando

[pendean]

Can you better define what these "times" are in any detail?

[orosario]

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@pendean wrote:

Can you better define what these "times" are in any detail?

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With Architecture 2008 version , when changing from one tab to another, it may take as long as 1 minute.

With Architecture 2010 version, certain plans take more than one minute to completely load, some of these plans are no more complicated than others. We do use xref's as much as possible.

When plotting it take approx. 15 to 20 seconds to bring up the Dialog Box.

Overall we consider the performance of our systems slow.

These are Autocad System requirements for a 32-bit system.

Windows XP - Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ Dual Core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology

Windows Vista - Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon Dual Core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology

This is what our systems have:

Pentium 4 CPU 3 GHz WITH 2GB RAM

Thanks for your response and help.

Orlando

[J.A.Mounteer]

On average how many xrefs are in a drawing?  How many layout tabs in the drawing and how many viewports on each tab?

We have similar slowdowns here, but we're using 20-30 xrefs in a plan that involves 60-70 layout tabs per drawing each with a single viewport.  It's actually sped-up since using 2008, but won't ever be what I'd call speedy.  If we can reduce the number of xrefs in the drawing (like when doing lot specifics) the drawing speeds up considerably.  It seems like a large number of xrefs will slow you down just as much as having a large drawing file would.

[orosario]

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@J.A.Mounteer wrote:

On average how many xrefs are in a drawing?  How many layout tabs in the drawing and how many viewports on each tab?

We have similar slowdowns here, but we're using 20-30 xrefs in a plan that involves 60-70 layout tabs per drawing each with a single viewport.  It's actually sped-up since using 2008, but won't ever be what I'd call speedy.  If we can reduce the number of xrefs in the drawing (like when doing lot specifics) the drawing speeds up considerably.  It seems like a large number of xrefs will slow you down just as much as having a large drawing file would.

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Since we offer a variety of options within a given footprint, the amount of xrefs could vary between 10 and sometimes close to 20, but they are just small pieces tof the puzzle. There size could be as much as 200kb (0.2 MB)

This slowness is even with drawings that do not have any xrefs at all.

Our systems are 32-bit, is that the norm? Does anyone out there use a 64-bit system?

Thanks Again;

Orlando

[pendean]

"...Pentium 4 CPU 3 GHz WITH 2GB RAM..."

That was a good PC with ADT2006, barely acceptable in ACA2008, not much use for anything other than surfing and word processing today.

You seem to be describing average slowness on a low end PC, not much else. Nothing software related will speed it up.

[orosario]

What's the recommend CPU and RAM?

[orosario]

The fact that we have the ACA 2010 software installed in our computers and work from the Network Server, does that have any affect on performance or speed?

Thanks Again;

Orlando

[jcp]

The best way to check the network speed is to copy a problem project and all support files to a local machine and see if it runs any faster.