New Versions of CAD CONSTANTLY crash and freeze making it USELESS!

Anonymous · ‎10-30-2016

Ok so I recently got AutoCad 2015 and installed it on a brand new top of the line Mac.'

I can not describe in words the frustration. God forbid I move a few objects or try and "mirror" anything. I have had to do a "force quit" countless times everyday because this CAD cannot handle the simplest function w/o crashing.

CAD wants to know what triggers the freezes?

Well to start...if you grab the grips on a line and try and move the end of the line...forget it. Just check your email while you wait for CAD to complete the action.

If you try and move something you are in for a very long wait.

Don't even think about doing more than one drawing in a file. Gone are the days that you could have an entire set of documents in one file.

No, now you need a separate file for a single section or you will want to pull tour eyeballs out.

Im sure it has to do with the Info Center which AutoCad has made impossible to disable on a Mac. I tried turning off my WiFi in the hopes that it would stop pinging AutoDesk and pay attention to the drawing rather than trying to send CAD info but things got even worse which suggests to me the issues definitely have something to do with internet...as in CAD has embedded a function to allow them to constantly collect data from your drawings w/o any regard to how much it would slow down the process.

CAD USED to work. It used to work well. Now it is an absolute joke.

I have never been motivated to learn any of the other competing software because CAD was so solid, but now I am feeling motivated.

In fact CAD makes hand drawing a much more viable option.

rendermaster · ‎10-31-2016

try to disable your hardware acceleration and let us see what happen.
command: 3DCONFIG

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pendean · ‎10-31-2016

The MAC forum is way over here http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac/ct-p/3011, no one in this WIndows-users forum can help you.

The latest MacOS may not be fully supported with your old R2015 software, you might have to upgrade your AutoCAD for MAC software. Make sure all AutoCAD flr MAC 2015 updates are installed and see if that helps.

Now go ask in the correct forum.

maxim_k · ‎10-31-2016

Hi,

1/ There is no way to turn off hardware acceleration in AutoCAD for Mac, it always uses only hardware acceleration.
2/ I think the key words in OP post are "Gone are the days that you could have an entire set of documents in one file." Looks like OP's DWG files are very complex. Plus they could have some errors in the drawing database.

My suggestion is to test the issue in simple drawing with a few lines, if everything works as expected, than try to run AUDIT command in problem drawings,
If the issue still shows in simple drawings, than try to Reset AutoCAD.
But before this you need to ensure that AutoCAD runs on compatible OS X and has all Updates installed.

Maxim

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Emmsleys · ‎11-03-2016

HI @Anonymous,

By any chance are you running Sierra on your new Mac?

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