Civil 3D PC spec

[wilsonm2000]

Hi

I have just joined a new company, and using Civil 3D 2014.  Doing anything is very slow, which really is not right, as its a good spec PC, better than my old employers, and theirs ran a lot faster.  I am not sure about graphics cards, can someone have a look at the screenshot below and tell me if anything jumps out that looks like it could be causing an issue.  It may be a network issue, but even when I save to my C: drive its having speed issues.

Thanks in advance

[Pointdump]

Big Maz,

When you say "slow", how slow are we talking? Have you tried opening a fresh, new, OOTB (Out of the box, not company) template drawing and checking the speed of things?

Dave

[wilsonm2000]

Yep, tried that, the first thing I done was copying contours from one drawing to another, there are a lot of polylines, but the process still took far longer than it should have. Creating surfaces is also very slow

[michael.robertson]

Are the files local or on a network drive?

[wilsonm2001]

Network

[michael.robertson]

That could be your problem, how does C3D react if you copy the files local? (just as a test). The fastest PC in the work is not going to help if your network is slow.

[wilsonm2000]

As mentioned on my original post, I have tried from the C: drive also

[DMFACER]

There are so many things and combinations of things that could make Civil 3D run slow.  We've unconvered some of them, but I would bet there are more out there that we haven't even figured out.

Here is a list of what we check when C3D is running slow:

Drawing Variables

In the drawing or template file:

• PROXYGRAPHICS variable set to Zero
• VIEWRES variable set to 200
• We found having a missing CAD Standards file attached in the CONFIGURE dialog box caused severe slow down issues, too

System Variables

Video card settings:

• Test running Civil 3D with Hardware Acceleration turned on and off
• Turn off Dynamic Tessellation in the 3DCONFIG dialog box
• Turn off Adaptive Degradation in the 3DCONFIG dialog box

Properties Palette

• Change PROPOBJLIMIT to the maximum setting of 32767

These are the primary things we check when we see an issue with Civil 3D running slow.  It's important to understand the effect of changing these settings before you change them, so I would suggest checking out the Help file if you're not familiar with the effects of changing any of these variables.

Hope some of this can help you narrow down the issue you're having.