drawing takes too long to open

[Anonymous]

I have a civil 3D drawing that takes about 20 minutes to open. any suggestions? I can send drawing if someone wants to take a look. thanks

[Anonymous]

Clevand I wish I had 20 minutes to spare 🙂 Can you provide a little
information on the drawing? File size? Images? Points files? When you do get
it to finally open have you ran an audit and purged all? Try that.

wrote in message news:5580125@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have a civil 3D drawing that takes about 20 minutes to open. any
suggestions? I can send drawing if someone wants to take a look. thanks

[Anonymous]

yea, i understand. its 3.3 MB and I purged and audited it and still no difference. there are no points files in the drawing. I have surfaces adn alignments data shortcuted into it, and I have 5 assemblies, 1corridor and 120 cross sections in the drawing.

[Anonymous]

The cross sections may be the culprit. Try erasing them and creating them
in a seperate drawing (if you are using 2008). In the new drawing reference
in your alignment, xref in your corridor, and create sample lines and
sections.

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Brian
http://www.ctcivil.com
http://cadcafe.blogspot.com


wrote in message news:5580398@discussion.autodesk.com...
yea, i understand. its 3.3 MB and I purged and audited it and still no
difference. there are no points files in the drawing. I have surfaces adn
alignments data shortcuted into it, and I have 5 assemblies, 1corridor and
120 cross sections in the drawing.

[Anonymous]

oh, you can do that in '08? that's great, i'm actually using '07 but we're getting '08 soon. thanks alot

[Anonymous]

will it work to xref in the corridor? I thought you had to use data shortcuts to get the new file to read anything from civil 3D. Right now I have a basemap with my alignment and profile, and another file with my corridor, sample lines, assemblies and cross sections.

So you're saying I should have everything except the cross sections and sample lines in the basemap?

[Anonymous]

The way to "reference" corridor information into another drawing is to xref
it in. New in 2008 you can sample corridor sections from a corridor that is
being xrefed in. Yes, that is an xref (external reference) not a data
reference or shortcut. Apparently, in order to do a data reference of a
corridor, you would have to bring in the assemblies and sub assemblies and,
well, a bunch of stuff (I wonder why a surface reference doesn't bring in
the points and breaklines and...). Autodesk decided to make this one object
available via xrefs.

--
Brian
http://www.ctcivil.com
http://cadcafe.blogspot.com


wrote in message news:5580704@discussion.autodesk.com...
will it work to xref in the corridor? I thought you had to use data
shortcuts to get the new file to read anything from civil 3D. Right now I
have a basemap with my alignment and profile, and another file with my
corridor, sample lines, assemblies and cross sections.

So you're saying I should have everything except the cross sections and
sample lines in the basemap?