Jump to content

Problem solved: slow loading drawings (very slow)


MarcoW

Recommended Posts

Today I encountered a big problem: one of the drawings that I have been working on lately, and has grown to be a big project with many xrefs, seemed to be damaged. The drawing didn't open allthough AutoCAD did not crash. Odd...

 

I decided to let the program (AutoCAD 2008 ) run, and waited 6 minutes. Then the drawing opened as if nothing happened. But copy and paste in the drawing does once again resolve in waiting 6 minutes.

 

I have recovered and audited each file, the drawing itself and all the xrefs. Nothing changed. I was stuck... The strange thing is that the files separate do open, but in combination they do not.

 

I opened the file on another machine, in AutoCAD 2010 and the same happend. But I noticed a small "message" on the command line. All I could read (for a brief moment) was "excessive scales". This I put in the google search engine and I found this helpfull thread.

 

I opened each drawing again and manually reset the scalelist to default by doing this:

 

 
Command: -scalelistedit
Enter option [?/Add/Delete/Reset/Exit] <Add>: r
Reset scale list to defaults? [Yes/No] <No>: y
Scale list reset to default entries.
Enter option [?/Add/Delete/Reset/Exit] <Add>: e
Command:

 

Then save the drawings and opened the main file again.

 

ALL FIXED !!

 

I think I will put thsi in my acaddoc.lsp for I do not use annotation scales.

 

Because I was really afraid of losing a big deal of work and now have found the solution I thought it would be a good thing to post and share.

 

Hope it helps if needed!

(I am sorry if my post is in the wrong subforum buth this seemed the right spot to me.)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well said, dear friend.............

Last 2 year I am also facing this problem daily.

But I am having clean up exe file in my desktop.

so i can reset scales at a time all the drawings....better u ask ur ISD.

any way I cant do others drawings.........so hope ur request...

If u find pls share...i am also waiting to share if find

pls help us some one having suggestion..........

Thanks

mani

New Bitmap Image.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Funny this came up. We are having the same issue after we switched to 2008. This is an old bug that's been fixed back in 2008. Make sure you have the latest service pack installed and hotfixes. If you are like us using 64bit vista and can't install the updates, then you should make those commands into a lisp and make it run at startup like you said AND run it after you insert or reload an xref. That's because it re-inserts the xref scales after each xref is inserted/reloaded. The scale list just rebuilts up again!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well said, dear friend.............

Last 2 year I am also facing this problem daily.

But I am having clean up exe file in my desktop.

so i can reset scales at a time all the drawings....better u ask ur ISD.

any way I cant do others drawings.........so hope ur request...

If u find pls share...i am also waiting to share if find

pls help us some one having suggestion..........

Thanks

mani

 

I am sorry but cannot understand if you request to me ..? And for what.

 

Putting it in the acaddoc.lsp like I said works form me.

 

@ Jeepmaster:

I believe it will work for the most times for me. If not, I now know where to seek for the problem.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

hi MarcoW,

Thanks to share this one. I am not read fully, so confused.

then i got the code, its really good for big projects.

also thanks to Alanjt for code posting.................

Regards

mani

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...