Problem with slow use of layputs with several wievports

[Anonymous]

I have problem , its very slow i have to wait for a long time when i are going to plot every layouts

i have i few xref, and many wievports in the layouts.

what should i do to let it go faster when i do my pdf files from the layots, it take a long time to load every layout, when i have activate the different "xref-files".

by the way. I also use magicad pipes and ventilation and autocad in the background

please help me to find out this problem, it takes 5-10 minutews per layout to load the xref files

[ennujozlagam]

@Anonymous hello, try to audit and purge your file and all xref's attached and see if helps. thanks

[Anonymous]

Ok, i tried with purge and audit, but still same problem, it isn´t enough!
Something else i can try ?

[imadHabash]

Hi,

i suggest to try the follow:

• Options > Plot and Publish tab > General plot Options > go and tick Hide system printers.
• SAVEFIDELITY = 0 .

[Anonymous]

Ok then i tried this and no different.
The big problem is: when i reload the xref-file i take looong time befor i can start plot pdf of my layout. if o dont unload the xref it take very long time to face the layout slice.
Still problems, what is the problem?!

[Juergen_Becker]

Hi,

sorry, I know it's late for an answer.

Please try to delete the scalelist. Reset it to Default in the Options Dialog. Maybe thats help.

To much scales in a scalelist slow down the Speed.

Regards Jürgen

[Juergen_Becker]

Hi,

sorry for being late.

Please delete the scalelist or set it to the default in options dialog.

Much scales in the scaling list slow down AutoCAD.

Regards Jürgen

[Anonymous]

I have already tried this´!
-scalelistedit/reset/yes/exit
it doesnt work
anything else i can try!

[Anonymous]

Hi, i still have this problem can anybody give me a clue?

[braudpat]

Hello

Welcome to the Autodesk / AutoCAD Forums !

1) Which ACAD version ?
32 or 64 bits ?

2) Which Windows ?

3) Exact type of your processor (i3/5/7, Xeon) ?

4) How much memory in Gb ?

5) For ALL your DWG XREFs :
Purge, Remove all Non-Used Annotative Scales, Remove all Layouts except an empty one, etc

Regards, Patrice

[Juergen_Becker]

Hi,

another idea:

Are there many of AC$ blocks in that drawing or XRefs.

Many of that blocks slow down the drawing.

Cheers Jürgen

[Juergen_Becker]

Hi,

another Idee:

Are there many AC$ blocks in the draing or Xref?

Many of that AC$ blocks slow down the Speed of drawings.

Cheers Jürgen

[Anonymous]

Hi

I have a computer as follow:

-Acad 2016, 64 bits

-Windows 7 enterprise 64 bitars operativsystem

-Intel Xeon 2,9 GHz

-32 Gb memory

And i have tried to delete all on-used layouts en purge all xref in the xrefs drawings.

i also have explode the drawing wich include many blocks, so i dont have any blocks.

Still no different, still problem

why?

One time i hade o problem with duplicate files, then it works to reset scalelist, but it dosent work in this case.

[pendean]

Is the problem limited to this one file? What is the size of this DWG file? What are the contents?
Or is it all files?
What is your video card? What version driver is it using?

[Anonymous]

I have the problem in all files in this project

but it´s different how slow the files are, it´s slower in files with more xref, and viewports.

I hade such a problem in anotther project.

but i think it isn´t this problem always, its i bigger problem when i use many xref and wievports and layouts. 

the size of the files is about 3 Mb.

the files consists of

-severel xref´s

-autocad and magicad objects

-layouts 

The video card is nvidia Quadro M2000M version 10.18.13.5445,  2015-11-05

???

[wispoxy]

Issue:

When switching between layouts in a drawing in AutoCAD, the program hangs or pauses for a while before the switch is complete and the layout displayed.

Solution:

Do one or more of the following: 

• Change the Layout and Regen settings in AutoCAD. These are located in Options under the System tab. Find the setting that works best. Usually "Cache model tab and all layouts" is best.

• Look for excessive, extra geometry outside of the page area--things that really don't need to be in the drawing. Deleting these will increase layout performance.

• If you have very high coordinates, move the model to 0,0,0 (or closer to it).

• Purge the drawing, especially blocks and regapps (use -PURGE for the command line option).

• Remove custom paths that have been added under "Printer Support File Path" in Options > Files.

• Reset AutoCAD to defaults (see How to reset AutoCAD to defaults).

See Also:

Slower performance when opening drawings or switching between layouts in AutoCAD 2015

Article ID: kA230000000trC1

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Slow-p...

[Anonymous]

Now i have try all this things, but it´s not working!

[RobDraw]

Since this seems to be isolated to one project. I would focus on the XREFs.

First off, the long lag could be because AutoCAD is searching for stuff it cannot find. Check the XREFs for any XREFs that you do not have. Things like images are often not included. If you have any nested XREFs, I would try removing them and reference them at the first level.

If the XREFs are from an outside source and that source could be using a vertical product that you are not using, you need to make sure they have properly converted. Get Drawing TrueView free from Autodesk and convert all the XREFs to your version of AutoCAD.

If, after doing the above, you are still having issues, giving the XREFs a thorough cleaning and examining them for anything that might be unusual. Start with looking at the command line history after opening the files. AutoCAD might give you messages if it is recognizing any issues. Hitting F2 should bring up a separate window that you can scroll through the opening messages. Next examine the contents of the file for anything unusual. I've had a single attribute that was not associated with a block bring referencing files to a slow crawl. Large hatch patterns or large amounts of hatches can also be resource hogs. If you are not familiar with how to clean up a drawing, there are many resources for additional steps to take or LISP routines to do a brute force cleaning if you are not interested in learning what is causing the problem.

If after that, you are still having problems, you might want to take a look at simplifying the drawing by deleting unnecessary content, flattening 3D content, etc. Exploding everything or anything is usually not a good idea. Blocks actually help with performance.