Etransmit hanging

I am using etransmit in autocad 2008lt to bind xrefs in bulk, if i try to add 300 drawings it locks up and sits doing nothing, is there a limit to how many drawings etrasmit will cope with.

Have you ever been able to, in the past, bind that many xrefs using eTransmit?

 

Could it be that you have run up against the limitations of your hardware?

 

What are your system specs?

pentium dual core 2.7GHz 2gig ram

Have you been able to bind that many xrefs in the past without a problem? Yes/No/I don't remember?

 

Do you have a rough guess as to what the finished file size might be when you bind 300 xrefs?

looking like a hardware issue managed to do it in four sections it was 800 drawings in total way too many for the CPU

The CPU seems ok.

 

2GB of RAM gets used up pretty quickly. Do you have the room and/or the money to add more?

I will ask boss for more ram, what would you suggest to cope with issues like this

I will ask boss for more ram, what would you suggest to cope with issues like this

 

Depends on your motherboard specs and the OS you are using.

 

Let's assume you are running a 32-bit version of both your OS and AutoCAD. Even running XP Pro or Vista you'll be limited to a maximum of 4GB of RAM and you won't be able to take advantage of most of it without adding the 3GB switch parameter to your boot.ini file. You may also have to tweak your virtual memory (page file) settings to squeeze out a bit more performance.

 

Do you know how many memory slots you have and how they are currently being utilized?

 

Do you know what the max speed of RAM your system will support without a BIOS upgrade?

Even running XP Pro or Vista you'll be limited to a maximum of 4GB of RAM and you won't be able to take advantage of most of it without adding the 3GB switch parameter to your boot.ini file. You may also have to tweak your virtual memory (page file) settings to squeeze out a bit more performance.

You'll be extremely lucky to use more than 3GB. Usually that RAM address space is taken up by your graphics card and any other add-on cards. To use more than 3GB effectively you'll need a 64bit OS. And you don't state which model "Pentium" CPU, some of the older models won't run 64bit - I know, my laptop's dual core doesn't allow me to install any 64bit OS.

 

Can you bind the xrefs manually? Note you can select more than one XRef to bind at once (either through the normal XREF palette or using ClassicXref dialog).