Blam Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I have a user that is viewing a small 3D drawing. She complains of poor performance and hangups. Running AutoCAD 2013 on Win7, Quadro K2000m, 16GB. I'm more it now than user of AutoCAD. Can 3D gurus give me some tips on getting better performance out of 3D. She was busy, so I didn't have time to check much but here is what I suggested. - Disable preview highlighting - Switch between realistic, conceptual or wireframe when manuvering around model. - check hardware accel is on. Any other helpful tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Are xrefs being used? How about layer filters? What else is running in the background? How "small" is this "small" 3D drawing really? Is this a laptop or a workstation she is using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handiman Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 What is the processor? Speed? # of cores? That video card and memory should be plenty as long as the processor type, speed is the same quality. How small is small? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blam Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 It's a small tank farm, but it does look detailed. We have guys that get complex machine assemblies from vendors and they have every nut modeled. Some of our guys use Inventor shrink-wrap function to help with this. That might be called for in this case. I didn't check other processes running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROBP Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 It's a small tank farm, but it does look detailed. We have guys that get complex machine assemblies from vendors and they have every nut modeled. Some of our guys use Inventor shrink-wrap function to help with this. That might be called for in this case. I didn't check other processes running. Attach the file so we can view it and then send comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 - Switch between realistic, conceptual or wireframe when manuvering around model. Definitely. I do this all the time in 3ds Max with really heavy scenes. Switching to Wireframe really helps lighten the load on the processor & GUI when navigating around in the viewport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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