Keyboard input delay

[peterjwinberg]

Is there a setting to determine how quickly AutoCAD recognizes my keyboard input? Some examples of my issue...

"Move" is set as "M" and "Mirror" is set as "MI". When I'm in a groove my keystrokes and mouse action are very fast. If I want to mirror something I input "MI (then mouse right click)" in a subsequent microsecond, but CAD doesn't register the "MI". It only gets the "M" and runs the move command, so I need to exit out and start over.

It happens during a command as well. Let's say I want to move something 24 inches. I will select the object while in the move command and input "24 (then mouse right click)" very fast, but it will only register the 2 and move it 2 inches. 

The second of a double keystroke doesn't register unless I make myself delay. It adds up over time and is annoying. My home setup doesn't have this issue - only my office setup. INPUTSEARCHDELAY is not the issue.

Thanks!

[mackland]

Been using autocad for 25+ years and the last 15 years or so this has been the case. They remove useful features, pack it full new features that slow it down and never fix old issues. 

[Wayne_BryanM5AVA]

None of the above solutions solved the problem for me.

Last time this issue suddenly started happening I switched to an old profile and it magically went away. Unfortunately I didn't save that profile with a new name so I could revert if this happened again, and it has.

I will reinstall AutoCAD and it will go away.

[vandenoosterkamp]

In 2022 it's worse than ever. After switching back to C3D from another program around 25% of the time the keyboard imput is 'landing' in another open drawing. It is by far the biggest annoyance ever. Iirc it was solved in the 2020 version. But the developpers must have thought 'hey, let's bring that back to slow them suckers down so we can sell more subscriptions'.

[vandenoosterkamp]

The most funniest thing ever happened a few weeks ago. After filling in a 100% negative review about the autodesk product I was called by an autodesk guy that wanted to know why I'm so negative. I talked a full hour, explaining the stupidity of the program. I could have go on for weeks. I can write an encyclopedia about it. I can waste months of my time adding ideas to the new features suggestion forum but that is just energy wasted in vain.

I stopped nagging over here long time ago. I just visit this website a few times a week to get confirmation that things I want are indeed impossible without tedious workarounds.

[RobDraw]

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@vandenoosterkamp wrote:

The most funniest thing ever happened a few weeks ago. After filling in a 100% negative review about the autodesk product I was called by an autodesk guy that wanted to know why I'm so negative. I talked a full hour, explaining the stupidity of the program. I could have go on for weeks. I can write an encyclopedia about it. I can waste months of my time adding ideas to the new features suggestion forum but that is just energy wasted in vain.

I stopped nagging over here long time ago. I just visit this website a few times a week to get confirmation that things I want are indeed impossible without tedious workarounds.

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Why are you posting in this thread? It has been solved by proper user settings.

If you are having that much trouble with AutoCAD, you are doing it wrong or you are using the wrong program. I suggest that you seek out advice in a proper way instead of complaining all the time. I'd be willing to bet that most of your problems are PEBCAK.

[mackland]

I too have received these calls and not once have they given a solution to features that we used to have in Land desk top. They have eliminated some functions we had LDD and we have figured out a lot ourselves as far as work arounds. In our hectic work environment, we do not have time to do proper research to find solutions in a timely manor especially when Autodesk and our dealer have told us "it is no longer possible to do". I use my lunch hour to write these comments hoping to find info. In some cases we have found that the function was "renamed" and / or we need to do custom programming and / or third party software solutions to do what we've been doing for 30 years. (now 35 years) Our customers require us to provide Autodesk files and we do not have the resources to switch major drafting software so we must just trudge on and hope the next update improves and we get back our functions we used to have or Autodesk provides more insight to solutions.

[RobDraw]

Not having time for research is not a software problem. Most places have at least one person that has time allotted for research and developing workflows. Even when that wasn't part of my job, I was always checking new features/changes just so for staying up to date with the tools of the trade.

There is no way for Autodesk to provide workflows for every little part of all the industries that use the software but that they do provide A LOT in the AKN (Autodesk Knowledge Network) as well as other areas. One has to research and experiment.

[pendean]

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@mackland wrote:
...we do not have time to do proper research to find solutions in a timely manor... I use my lunch hour to write these comments hoping to find info... we do not have the resources to switch major drafting software ...

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Sounds like a management/staffing challenge that software cannot solve. But for your owners, it's paying well I presume so it continues.

FYI everyone here is an end-user like you, since LDD was retired back in March of 2012, I'm not sure what anyone here can provide you with guidance to address your other issues. 

Best of luck.

[mackland]

Spoken like a true AI. Can see right through it.

[RobDraw]

Thank you. I'm good but not that good. Kind of like your powers of observation. 

[vandenoosterkamp]

Solved by proper settings? Are you living in 2065 and did you come back from the future? It just can't be solved appaerently. I got half a year free subsciption once already few years ago because of this insane bug.

Please trol someone else

[RobDraw]

If proper settings doesn't solve it then why are thousands of people not experiencing it?

Name calling is not only inappropriate, it shows your immaturity. 

[rkmcswain]

@vandenoosterkamp wrote:

...... After switching back to C3D from another program around 25% of the time the keyboard imput is 'landing' in another open drawing. It is by far the biggest annoyance ever.

That is an easy fix thankfully. Just turn OFF Level of Detail (Command: LEVELOFDETAILOFF)

This KB article might be the most ridiculous one I've ever seen.

The "Solution" is to turn off a feature that we pay for in the software.

Not "hang on, we are making a bug fix for that", but "turn this off".

BTW: This has been a C3D bug since at least Civil 3D 2015.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Command-line-stops...

[RobDraw]

I don't know but I think most people here would turn off a feature if it were interfering with their workflow. There's no logic in leaving it on just because it's paid for. 

[rkmcswain]

@RobDraw - I was more or less referencing what @mackland said above.

"They remove useful features, pack it full new features that slow it down and never fix old issues."

[RobDraw]

I don't know what you mean but that statement isn't worth referencing.

[rkmcswain]

Despite it being accurate?

[RobDraw]

That would be a matter of opinion and point of view. Frustrated users tend to use any excuse to make generalities like these. IMHO, using generalities like this are based on speculation and are inherently wrong.

I forgot that you were one of them.

I'm out.