The Plot Preview takes a long time, can I speed it up somehow?

[MarcoW]

Hello everyone,

 

As the title says, in some drawings the Plot Preview takes a long time. In case of a nearly empty drawing it is less then a second. In a regular one it maybe 2 seconds, and some big drawings, with a lot of Xrefs etc. take 10 seconds to get to the full preview.

 

Well of course I can understand that the more objects in a drawing I have the more there must be regenerated, the image needs to be build up. This is why I tend not to create too heavy drawings: I split them up, like the ground floor is a seperate drawing than the first floor.

 

However tis cannot be done not allways and in those cases I end up with a too big drawing. Besides the plot preview, the switching between layouts also takes more time. Espescially when there are several viewports per layout.

 

Again: it is clear to me that AutoCAD needs time to do things and the more objects, the more time. But maybe there are tips / functions that can improve the time needed for things. If so, please share and I will be very thankful.

 

If not: then I will live with it and go on as usual.

 

Thanks in advance for the effort (and reading this thread).

[ReMark]

Could the root cause of your problem be hardware related?

[MarcoW]

Hi ReMark,

 

Hmm... I never say never, but my idea is that I have a great machine to work with.

It's specs: Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6GHz + 4Gb ddrRam + VideoCard Asus X1650 256MB.

I never have problems with my machine but as said... never say never....

[Pablo Ferral]

...or network related... Autocad can slow down when plotting if it can't 'find' the plotter.

 

...or page file related... Have a look in the options dialog to see where your plotting page file is. It could need a clean out or moving...

[MarcoW]

...or network related... Autocad can slow down when plotting if it can't 'find' the plotter.

 

...or page file related... Have a look in the options dialog to see where your plotting page file is. It could need a clean out or moving...

Thanks Pablo I will check it out. Any result I will post.

[ReMark]

What OS are you running?

 

Could it be you have a bloated scalelist?

 

How about too many layer filters?