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Inventor 2012 painfully slow

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Anthony
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Inventor 2012 painfully slow

I am experiencing horrendously slow performance in my Inventor 2012. What I am working on is by no means complex however basic functions like placing constraints just freeze the whole thing up Smiley Mad

 

Yes I have all the latest service packs installed, drivers, hot fixes etc. etc. and I am running a high spec machine.

 

Anyone can tell me what on earth is wrong with Inventor ?

Anthony Goodwin ~ Cad Manager/Senior Designer
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
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Message 2 of 16
ampster402
in reply to: Anthony


Anthony wrote:and I am running a high spec machine

what is "high spec" to some....

 

While you might indeed have a "high spec" machine, it might be bogged down by an onboard graphics card...

 

But without knowing, who can tell?

 

System specs?

Message 3 of 16
Anthony
in reply to: ampster402

My machine spec :

 

HPZ400 Xeon 3.07GHz

12GB Memory

64-bit OS

ATI FirePro V4800 graphics card

 

My graphics card has been recently upgraded by out IT company.

 

Thanks

Anthony Goodwin ~ Cad Manager/Senior Designer
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
Message 4 of 16
JDMather
in reply to: Anthony

Are you using a 3DConnexion device?

If so, click Calibrate on the 3DConnexion Control Panel.


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Message 5 of 16
phil-mcam
in reply to: Anthony

Was it working fine and now is slower?

Is it slower now only after the new video card?

Message 6 of 16
dennymet
in reply to: Anthony

Check to make sure you're not using software graphics.

 

Application Options > Hardware

 

Ever since I installed my 3dconnexion device, this box gets checked every so often. It's a little annoying but I can live with a couple of quirks, I guess.

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Message 7 of 16
blair
in reply to: Anthony

You followed all the installation pre-requisites?

 

1.) Administrative Privileges

2.) UAC turned off, slider to lowest settings

3.) Anti-Virus software disabled


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Message 8 of 16
Anthony
in reply to: phil-mcam

Not sure what you mean by 'after the new video card', this video card is the one I've always had when I got my CAD station.

 

I so have a 3D Connexion devive which is configured for Inventor, I didn't know what this would affect Inventor though.

Anthony Goodwin ~ Cad Manager/Senior Designer
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
Message 9 of 16
phil-mcam
in reply to: Anthony

You mention a video card upgrade. What did you mean? New hardware? When things go sideways I always ask "what's changed?" It's always a good place to start.
Message 10 of 16
Anthony
in reply to: phil-mcam

Thanks, as far as I know our IT company have made some routine updates via the internet to the video card that came with the machine, I would have thought this would improve performance not the other way round ? Smiley Frustrated

Anthony Goodwin ~ Cad Manager/Senior Designer
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
Message 11 of 16
JDMather
in reply to: Anthony


@Anonymous wrote:

 

I so have a 3D Connexion devive which is configured for Inventor, I didn't know what this would affect Inventor though.


Ask Sean Dotson.

 

Did you try Calibrate?
Did you try unpluging the 3D Connexion device?

 

Try this - try dragging the sidebar of the feature browser to make it wider.

Is it really slow to resize?


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Message 12 of 16
Anthony
in reply to: JDMather

I have clicked the 'calibrate' button on the 3D Connexion control panel but not difference in Inventor.

 

I haven't unplugged the device but why would I need to do that ? Do you mean unplug then reconnect to see if it sorts out the problem ?

Anthony Goodwin ~ Cad Manager/Senior Designer
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
Message 13 of 16
JDMather
in reply to: Anthony

I mean unplug and leave it unplugged to see if it makes a difference.

If is doesn't - you have eliminated one possible cause.


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Message 14 of 16
Doug_DuPont
in reply to: Anthony

Anthony,

Did you figure out your problem? We just upgraded to 2012 and are having the same problem.

We installed SP1, I loaded the lastest video driver.

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Windows 10 64 Bit
Message 15 of 16
Anthony
in reply to: Doug_DuPont

Inventor 2012 is still grinding away even trying to perform basic functions such as bolted connection, assemble etc. not sure why this is but it's becming a real drag, I sincerely hope that Autodesk sort out all these issues in the next release, they should be making sure they have a properly functioning version before releasing it.

Anthony Goodwin ~ Cad Manager/Senior Designer
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)
Message 16 of 16
blair
in reply to: JDMather

Does anything stand out in the Processes when you have the Task-Manager opened. Possibly multi instances of Inventor or something else that's using a lot of resources?


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