I have another issue with this file. I have about 10 tabs with about 25 to 30 viewports and when I switch between tabs to clean up the titleblocks and plot it gets slower and slower. Now I've noticed that the Regenerating modified entities keeps increasing as I switch tabs. Is this causing the problem? Is there a way to stop or change this? Here is the latest I got. It took a full 15 minutes to regenerate the tab.
As a first step, have you tried to switch "Layout Regen Options" [Tools\Options\System] to "Regen when switching layouts"? It might help to narrow down the cause of the problem.
- 2008-02-26, 08:35 AM MemberRe: Caching Viewports...
Hi and thanks for the welcom, i can see i will spend allot of time here!
I have spent hours pulling the drawings apart and have come to the conclusion that it is my annotative scaling that is making the drawing hang. I re-created all my layout tabs and viewports in a brand new drawing, and even got the viewport scaled to 1:50 with my xref loaded. Switching, panning, zooming in the viewport works fine, but the moment i set the annotative scaling to 1:50, it freezes up. This happens in model space and paper space.
I have existing text and content that i have copied into the drawing, so maybe that is the problem, Either way it is a strange problem to have. None of my other drawings have this problem.
Nick
- 2008-02-26, 08:36 AM Member-Re: Caching Viewports...
I tried your suggstion jaberwok, but to no avail! Thanks anyway!
- - 2008-02-29, 07:35 PM
Re: Caching Viewports...
The xref thing was hanging one of my drawings in the same manner. I just unload the xref's, switched paper/model space and then reload the xrefs.
I think you will find that the problem resides in the tempoary file size that handles viewports [\.swp]. If you have an ungraceful exit from AutoCAD, it leaves behind allot of junk files. These junk files if left to acumulate over a period of time can drastically reduce your system performance. When AutoCAD exits normally, it deletes these temporary files, but only regarding the current session. any temparary files it encouters from a previous crashed session, are left intact.Re: Caching Viewports...First I suggest you search your system & hidden files for ac$/dmp/err/swp file extensions, without any autodesk product running. Then delete them, and make sure they are gone, by empting the recycle bin. If nothing else I bet your CAD system runs allot quicker. Just a small guide on viewports, is to avoid using too many per sheet. The more viewports, the bigger the swp file required to open. A fairly inocuious & small CAD file with 50+ veiwports will take forever to open, and will probably crash out anyway, while your system tries to create a large swp file. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for Show only | Search instead for Did you mean:
Back to Topic Listing Previous - Next Anonymous 6139 Views, 5 Replies 07-11-2002 10:14 PM Restoring cached viewports? When switching from a paper space tab back to the model tab, Autocad then zooms extents. It says it is "restoring cached viewports". This is new in 2002 and I haven't found a toggle [if there is one] to turn this off. Sorry if this has been posted before, I could not find a "search posts" button to search this discussion group. Thanks.