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I can't see anything fundamentally wrong with it. My machine did slow down when I went into your Layout Tabs, all those viewports were rendered to Conceptual and everything just slowed down. Getting rid of those didn't do anything with the performance of the model in Modelspace. AutoCAD doesn't take advantage of multi-core systems so I don't think your system is the bottleneck. The card shouldn't be a problem either, its got 4gb of RAM on it, and its only 25mb so quite small for a file size.
I'm splitting your model up into Piping and Equipment to see if that helps anything.
That Tank with the internal mixer's could be edited to remove the internal elements, unless you really need to see them.
And for future, I'd seriously consider using Plant3D if you're going to continue working with piping. If you're Aust/NZ based I can help with setting up projects and Catalogs/Specs.
I have a HP Z800 with 12core Xeons, 64gb of RAM and an RX580 card. It'll rotate, but its not the best, and once I switched to wireframe it was fine, BUT, at Conceptual, it slows down. I played with it for a bit on the Realistic setting, and that worked better than Conceptual.
As for Plant3D, its not going to be any better with *your* model, as its sitting on AutoCAD, the performance is going to be the same, you'd need to redo it all with Plant3D Cats and Specs and Equipment can be converted, but it still won't like the internals of the tank there. Take them out if you can.
There are some tube specs available for free online, but I don't know if they'd be to the standard you're after. If you click on my link below for my YouTube channel you'll see how to get started with Plant3D and other products.
It'll handle 3D, but to me it seems to be a super detailed model, that yes, you could do in Solidworks or Inventor, and it'll probably handle the geometry better.
If you get time, look at Plant3D, that's what its designed for. It does the elements as proxy objects, so they're more lightweight. Check out some of the video's with Plant3D in my YouTube channel below.
Unlike SolidWorks or Inventor, AutoCAD isn't really built for real-time shaded navigation; the shaded views are great for static viewports but when working you *really* want to be in wireframe for maximum performance. I've done much more complicated models with only modestly more capable hardware (4 core 3-point-something GHz Xeon, Quadro P4000, 32 GB RAM) and it flies in wireframe.
Procedurally, working with a combination of XREFs and frozen layers helps a lot, as does using Navisworks for the real-time navigation work. Typically AutoCAD DWGs start getting slow when you're up around the 20+ MB filesize. Then again, that model looks suspiciously small for your stated size.
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If you are going to fly by the seat of your pants, expect friction burns.
"I don't know" is the beginning of knowledge, not the end.
@dgorsman if you have a look at the model, its the mixing tank, its around 20mb itself, quite detailed, and probably too much detail for a Plant model IMO.
Once that gets taken out, it drops down by 20mb on my testing, but I agree, working with XREF's would be best for performance, or Plant3D, or Solidworks/Inventor.
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