Drafting! Did you take it?

[MazKid]

Wow, very nice Der Alta!! You should model cars. Racer(free racing sim, www.racer.nl) uses cars that people model, anyone can do it if they have skills, and I don't have modeling skills. You could make some exellent cars!!

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Boards in 9th grade

VeraCAD in 10th

AutoCAD 12 in 11th

AutoCAD 13 in 12th

AutoCAD 2000 in college

AutoCAD 2002 currently for work (Farm and Turf industrial supply) = Shop drawings and Instruction Manuals, all 3D


Board drafting is virtually obsolete these days.


Does anyone else work with AutoCAD all day? I'm having SERIOUS lag issues and fatal errors with files over 2 megs We need a remedy without spending thousands 👍

 

[barryf1fan]

Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
Does anyone else work with AutoCAD all day? I'm having SERIOUS lag issues and fatal errors with files over 2 megs We need a remedy without spending thousands 👍

I work on AutoCad all day as well, unfortunately we have an IT guy that won't tell you anything if something goes wrong. He just fixes it.
I recommend as much RAM as possible, I have 512K on my machine and some of the images (they are large) I open will get me the ol' "Fatal Error unhandled exception".
I think your "pagefile", not sure where it's at, memory needs to be increased. I'll go ask the butthead and if he gives up the info I'll post it on here for you.

Good luck!

 

[Red Eye Racer]

oooh MAN,. THANX

My production could litterally increase by 300% if this dang system could keep up

BTW,.... we upgaded to 512 and it helped with the fatal's,... but not entirely. My biggest problem is panning through big assemblies with poor regen efficientcy.

 

[barryf1fan]

Nope!!
He is such a dumbass.
I think he thinks that if he tells you what he did they (company) won't need him anymore... He is such a moron!

Sorry 'bout that, if I find somehting out for you in the next day or two I'll let you know...

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Yeah,... uor guy is like that too,.... but he's only on call and doesn't know crap about machine performance in relation to autoCAD,... so,.... unless we want to toss out $150 and hour to talk to autodesk, I'm up a friggin crick

Does anyone experience the same dilema? Terrible regen efficientcy in large files?

 

[barryf1fan]

One tip with big dwgs is not to realtime pan or zoom.
Also, purge if you can. I realize in mechanical your not wanting purge any blocks out, but if you can purge other stuff out it helps.
If by chance you are working with xrefs, try and xclip only the "area" you need to see for you dwg.

We work with huge base dwgs that can be 100's of miles long. Usually we xref that in and xclip the external reference. This helps with the regen of the dwg it is in. It's still there but the 'puter doesn't have to use any ram to generate it.

Do you use Paper space/Model space or just Model space?
for some reason I'm thinking that there is something in relation to that... oh well.
Try getting on AutoDesk's website click
here and look for a forum. I got on there and found out some stuff about CAD Overlay 2000 imaging trouble I had.

If I think of some other stuff I'll try and get it up here...

BTW-
Our IT guy is still a little pen!s head.

 

[barryf1fan]

I found the page file thing from the other post...
Try this:


To change the size of the virtual memory paging file

Open System in Control Panel.
On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, and under Virtual memory, click Change.
In the Drive list, click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.
Under Paging file size for selected drive, type a new paging file size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
If you decrease the size of either the minimum or maximum page file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. Increases typically do not require a restart.

Notes

You must be logged on as an administrator to the local computer to change the size of your computer's paging file.
To open a Control Panel item, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click the appropriate icon.
For best performance, set the initial size to not less than the recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your system.
Usually, you should leave the paging file at its recommended size, although you might increase its size if you routinely use programs that require a lot of memory.
To delete a paging file, set both initial size and maximum size to zero.

Let me know if this helps.

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by barryf1fan
One tip with big dwgs is not to realtime pan or zoom.
Also, purge if you can. I realize in mechanical your not wanting purge any blocks out, but if you can purge other stuff out it helps.

I try and keep everything in blocks. I work with assembly drawings all day, and assemblies in assemblies, LOL. So blocking the smaller assemblies helps a little.

If by chance you are working with xrefs, try and xclip only the "area" you need to see for you dwg.

no, I havent explored xref'ing too much. I thought that was useful with multiple machines only?

Do you use Paper space/Model space or just Model space?
for some reason I'm thinking that there is something in relation to that... oh well.

Model only

Thanx for the link and the help 👍
Try getting on AutoDesk's website click

BTW-
Our IT guy is still a little pen!s head.

heheheheheehe........ 👍

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aaaaaaahhhhhh,.. just saw above 👍 👍 THANX, I'll definately try that Though it will be in a few,.. the boss is havin a cow emergency over here (little farm joke there, lol)

 

[Red Eye Racer]

ok,.... I'm gonna try that now.

Just finished a pretty big project. All day I've been battling the lag. Shoot, I cant even MOVE anything without completely loosing my curser in a sea of lag'age

Anyhow, I went to the file on my desktop and right clicked and choose props,...... IT'S 11.8 MEGS If I had to guess, I'd say I lost 3 hours of production today,... just from lag

 

[Der Alta]

I can tell you the story of a lady I worked with. SHe was stuck on a slow computer. Realizing that lag was a problem she talked with the Studio head. He could justify a new computer (he used one to check hte weather and the time). No clue when it came to a function version of AutoCAD.

So...She went out and bought a cheap stopwatch. Every time the computer bogged she clicked the stopwatch. At the end of the day walked in and showed the studio head. He realized where his production budget was disappearing into... well over two hours that one day. After a week, he figured he was giving her an entire day off.

I'd suggest you take a similar approach Red Eye.

AO

 

[F094/H]

Man, my teacher was such a b*t*h, she wouldn't even help any of us! I would like drafting, but because of the memories of my teacher, I despise that class, I have been scarred for life! And her name was ms. Bassey, When ever she used an example that involved a person, she would use, "Peter Paul"! My whole class would laugh so hard! And she had a british accent too! Man, those were the days... BUT I STILL HATE DRAFTING!

 

[rjensen11]

I just started making a new model for a house, I'll post some pics of it when I finish it. The hard part will be making all the objects for the house, such as baby grand pianos, bookshelves(ones that cover whole walls, it's not really so much hard as it is tedious)
It should be done in a few days, depending on how long my parents will let me work on it...
Once I finish it, I'll upload the file if you guys want me to. I just recently upgraded to 3dsm5, so it's not too compatable with the older versions...

Oh yeah, does anybody know how to get rid of all the polygons? I mean, I want to be able to see the faces, but seeing everything in triangles can get pretty annoying, especially when one of your floors looks like it is made out of 8 triangles or so....

 

[rjensen11]

Nm, I think I fixed the problem. It was some driver setting...

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Nice appraoch Der Alta,... I'll try that,... thanx 👍