Howto Speed up Regens, etc?

[ZeroGravity]

I have been creating my Autocad drawings with one file per project and I use mutiple layouts. (13 layouts)

My problem is the length of time it takes autocad to regen when I try to create a new viewport. Sometimes it takes over 1 minute to complete.

When I used to use mutiple files with only one layout I had no problem with this before. So my computer is fast enough.

Is there a way to compress things in my drawing to make it faster?

[Cad64]

There are many things you can do:

1. Unload any xrefs you don't absolutely need at the moment.
2. Unload any images you don't need.
3. Freeze layers that you don't need to see.
4. Purge your drawing of everything you don't need.
5. Set QTEXTMODE to '1' which will display boxes in place of text.
6. Set FILLMODE to '0'.
7. Turn off the Display Lineweight option in the Lineweight Settings dialog box.
8. Set REGENMODE to '0' to stop automatic regens.

That's about all I can think of.
Just remember to reset all of these variables before closing the drawing.

You might also think about breaking your one file up into 2 or 3 separate files if you can. Maybe this one has too much going on in it.

[Mr T]

Turn off background programs etc like MP3 player, viruscanner.

Obviously this may cause problems......

Nick