AutoCAD Performance Issues

[jadesmurpy]

Interested in hearing what everyone's experience using AutoCAD remotely vs "on site" in an office, with network licenses vs not, and any other insights.

Many people at my current company experience extremely long load times or general issues using AutoCAD. Some examples:

Opening AutoCAD fresh takes ~5 minutes. Opening a drawing after this varies depending on the drawing but generally 1-3 minutes per drawing.

Plotting a drawing set can take up to 30 minutes, varying on size / number of drawings. AutoCAD seems to go through and open each one before plotting.

Editing text (double clicking or mtext edit) locks up AutoCAD for 20-30 seconds before it goes into the in-drawing text editor. Will happen for every drawing at least the first time editing text.

Our IT / CAD Manager leans heavily on saying this is a remote vs in office difference. We are on a VPN when remote, but I have not really noticed a difference to using it at one of our offices.

[paullimapa]

Why not leave your computer in the office on and then from offsite, remote into your office computer and use it as if you're sitting in your office.  The offsite computer then is just acting like a terminal. As long as your internet bandwidth is fast enough you should be able to see the graphic screen update well enough for you to function.

[engrjvb]

Hi @jadesmurpy , you can try to ask your IT to check on License Borrowing.

https://www.autodesk.com/asean/support/download-install/admins/network-deploy/borrow-a-license

This will you to have offline access even without VPN or internet access.

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