Can you lower the Buffer Detail

[EricStiles]

I'm creating a 12' buffer all the pipe in an oil field. When trying to do this, autocad keeps crashing. I can do it to some of the pipes but it's too much for my computer to do all of the pipes. But I did notice that the buffer is made up of a lot of points. For example if you made a buffer of a point that buffer would have a ployline drawn around it that is made up of a 1000 nodes or more. I don't need that much detail. Is there a setting that we can change to make the buffer not so detailed, thus creating polylines with less points, thus maybe Autocad won't crash.

[Anonymous]

What are the specs on your workstation? Sounds like you don't have the power
(resources) to do what you need.

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I'm using 2008. I was playing around with FDO. I converted my polylines to
SDF. Creating a buffer still crashes my computer. But I can create a
buffer of smaller area's. Now I need to UNION them together and I can't
find that command. Is that missing in 2008? Have they added it to 2010?