Hi All,
I've lost two hours to spinney rainbow today, and I need to figure out how to get this program or system running more efficiently.
I've always had minor issues with files that have a lot of xrefs or hatches, but it has been ridiculously slow today. I've had to force quit this file 4 times. I often get spinney rainbow when I try to change from one CAD window to another. As an interior designer, I don't think these files are particularly complex or large.
Any ideas on how I can get it to perform faster or more efficiently?
My Mac specs are: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512 MB on OS X 10.8.5
"Large" is relative . A typical file size number would help.
Hi Maxim,
Using Autocad for Mac LT 2013.
Problem is mainly switching between drawings. If I have a couple of files open it takes several minutes to move from one to another. Sometimes zooming or navigating within a window can be slow too, and that mainly occurs in files with lots of hatching. The program can be working fine, but then I will switch into another file and the spinney rainbow starts. Then it will continue to stall every time I switch files until I restart the computer, regardless of what files I am in. I can even close Autocad down and reopen all the files, and the problem persists until I restart the computer.
I do have custom hatch patterns loaded, but no text objects with True Type fonts.
My largest drawing file to date is 2 MB, but the majority are under 200KB.
I do have both Service Packs installed, and my CAD is was purchased direct from Autodesk.
I'm going to delete some of those hatch files. There are a lot, and I use very few of them. I'll let you know if that improves things.