This illustrates my "smoke and mirrors" comment. Having never seen or used the product,>I HAVE NO CLUE 🙂 (which, of course, is why I'm interested in your experience)
From a different thread:
(http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=400954)
James Wedding, P.E. asked:
"Anyone else notice a significant delay when switching between drawings in a single session?"
Jon Rizzo replied with:
Re: Long Delay in Switching DWGs?
Yes - very much. I believe it is prospector has to rip through the drawingto see what's in there.
Overall, the program seems to be very choppy when real data sets are loadedin. I have 1 GB of ram on my machine, but the hesitations seem to start before I exceed this amount (It usually hovers around 700-800 MB).
I have found that larger surfaces which used to be okay-to-slow in Land Desktop, are unusable in civil 3d. We have had to break our existing surfaces up into smaller pieces, which wouldn't be such a problem if shortcuts weren't so slow.
*sigh*
I used to team-teach a financial report writer. Having people in class was great. We knew the dataset, and it was small so everything worked well and fast. When thrown into a database with 100k+ records, it would take many minutes.
Further down in the same thread, folks are discussing hardware. I want to be VERY clear on what we'll really need to make this upgrade as smooth as possible...