RICHARD W Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I have AutoCAD 2012 and when I hatch it takes forever and sometimes AutoCAD will freeze for 10-15 minutes. This seems to happen with some drawing files worse than others. Anything I can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 What causes it to be worse? Have you tried different scenarios/methods to try to get it to work better? What kind of objects are you using for boundaries? XREFs? Are you using the pick point option or select object? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARD W Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 I don't know what causes it to be worse, the boundaries are lines that make up walls for my architectural floor plans, I don't hardly use x refs, never on my plans. and I use pick point option and solid hatch. The job that gave me the most trouble started as a copy and paste plan from the original architect, it was drawn so poorly I had to trace over it to create my own plan. It is a T.I. job. A restaurant. I only use single lines to create walls as there are always revisions and such so it is quicker for me just to leave them that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARD W Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 also, I did the AEC to ACAD and error check to try and see if that helped but it did not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Sometimes, the area picked LOOKS closed but due to a couple of lines not meeting, AutoCad may find a boundary MUCH larger than where you picked. If the area is quite large, solid hatch can take a really long time to fill in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARD W Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 I figured it out. It was not the boundaries. The file that was causing the problem was originally from an architect and it was huge, for reasons unknown. I had to clean it up and copy and paste into a small file template and now no more issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I figured it out. It was not the boundaries. The file that was causing the problem was originally from an architect and it was huge, for reasons unknown. I had to clean it up and copy and paste into a small file template and now no more issues.Yeah, that too. Huge drawings eat the video card and RAM alive, and hatching is very graphics heavy itself. Glad it's sorted. You probably see lagging regen times with those same drawings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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