Progress status bar for long operations - I'm sick of "not responding"

[autoMick]

"Not Responding" in task manager is a poor substitute for a status bar on long operations.

So many times, I've killed the processes (probably unnecessarily) in frustration as there is no indication within the program as to whether Civil3D is actually doing anything. See http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/how-do-you-know-when-civil3d-is-completely-de...

Even background tasks such as point cloud processing could benefit from some rudimentary status/progress bar, but most of all we need some indication that it's "worth hanging in there".

- Mick

[wim_de_winter]

I agree with this wish.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-ideastation/progress-bar-when-opening-en-saving-drawi...

[rkmcswain]

See also: https://twitter.com/cadpanacea/status/692332666478170112

[maurizio.cerri]

ok for the status bar ( as in civil 3d 2017)

but will be better if includes a sort of counter 1 of 3000 ..... 2 of 3000 etc...

thanks

Maurizio

[chris_brenton]

Add a threshold that if a task is calculated to be longer than 5 minutes prompt user if they want to proceed.  Autodesk added this to the hatch command.  I really like the progress bar idea.

[Anonymous]

oops I just made a post similar to this, but with the added "stop command" button underneath

[balenger.c]

in a similar vein, I wonder why each drawing (tab) isn't in its own (shell) so that it can be closed or killed without causing the program to crash.  while having a progress bar would be great, and a stop command would be even better.  these would probably require the command line to be independent of any drawing an instead present at the start menu. I think this would really improve the control the user has over the program and their production media, and probably cut down on the number of error / crash reports sent to autodesk - seems like a win /win...