imported images slowing down by drawing.

[grasshopper]

Howzit Gang! need help.

I am using autoCAD 2006, I as using it to draw traffic control plans, because of my heavy workload I had scanned (instead of drawing) and imported many images of the road into autoCAD, from there I clipped the images placed them together to get 1 complete image, this image consist of 10 different images, I than took away the framing from the images.

Now for the problem....

everytime I Pan, zoom or do anything that alters the screen in anyway shape or form, it takes awhile for the images to reload, every little movement I make, it takes about 3-5 sec or the images to reload... very, very irritating.

I've used this method in the past at my old working place where I was using a dell computer loaded with about 2 gigs, where I am employed now I am using an IBM loaded with about 2 gigs also... could the type of computer I am using be a problem?

anybody got a remedy to this? le me know.

Thanks in advance guys.

[Lazer]

What your doing will slow down your computer, hard to tell without the file you playing with, but yea the better the computer the better the results.

[Mr T]

The PC has to recalculate the pixel locations for all that scanned info, a bitmap, so normally in CAD the images and files are VECTORS which are much quicker to redraw.

You could reduce the resolution of the scanned images but then they will lose quality.

Load one of the effected files and type STATUS and see how much video ram is left.

Nick

[Cad64]

You could try setting REGENAUTO to OFF.

[grasshopper]

okay guys, I messed up again...

ion search of trying to make my computer process the image in question, I did something in the "raster image" option box, now when I draw dimension or try to create text.. all I get is the text frame... wihout text.... anybody got the remedy for this one too?

again.. Thanks in advance.

[Cad64]

Type QTEXT at the command line and set it to OFF. Then do a REGEN and you should have your text back.

[grasshopper]

okay guys, I messed up again...

ion search of trying to make my computer process the image in question, I did something in the "raster image" option box, now when I draw dimension or try to create text.. all I get is the text frame... wihout text.... anybody got the remedy for this one too?

again.. Thanks in advance.

okay nevermind, just panicked a little ... still hav9ing the same ist problem though....

[Cad64]

Did you try my suggestion about REGENAUTO?

Autocad is really not the right program for doing what you are trying to do. It's not an image editor. You should really be using Photoshop, or a similar program, for this. I think you would have much better luck if you could combine the 10 images into one image and then insert that one image into Autocad.

[Mr T]

You could insert the images into CorelDRAW then export as a DXF or DWG back into Autocad.

Nick

[grasshopper]

You could insert the images into CorelDRAW then export as a DXF or DWG back into Autocad.

Nick

I was thinking of something like that, I'll give it a try and hope that is the remedy.

I really appreciate all your help gang, thanks.