Crosshairs & Dimensions

[skenderbender17]

Hello All,

I have two questions,

1. my cross hairs are full size, so they are always the length and height of the screen. When I have a shade or a hatch they go behind it and wont come forward. Any way to change this?

2. I am having issues with my dimensions. When I want to put a string of dims in it takes about 5-7 seconds to load before I can click on my point where I want it to start, and then another few seconds to think before i can click my second point. Any suggestions for this.

 

Thanks!

[Jack_O'neill]

Hello All,

I have two questions,

1. my cross hairs are full size, so they are always the length and height of the screen. When I have a shade or a hatch they go behind it and wont come forward. Any way to change this?

2. I am having issues with my dimensions. When I want to put a string of dims in it takes about 5-7 seconds to load before I can click on my point where I want it to start, and then another few seconds to think before i can click my second point. Any suggestions for this.

 

Thanks!

 

My crosshairs sometimes do that if I have object snaps or snap tracking turned on and it snaps to a point behind the object but they don't stay there, they pop back up to the next one that I pass over. This combined with how you describe your dimensions acting would lead me to believe that your machine might be a little light on ram or video capability for the size drawing you are working on.

 

Does it always do these things, or just on certain drawings?

Does your machine meet the minimum requirements for the version of Autocad you are running? Keep in mind, even if it does, there's no guarantee that it will be able to handle every drawing you can create.

 

If you've done all the normal suggestions (purge the drawing, restart the computer, close any unnecessary files and programs, etc) then I'd suggest turning your attention to the size of the file and maybe upgrading ram and/or video.

[skenderbender17]

Hi,

 

No its not the object snaps or snap tracking. we just checked.

 

It just seems to be on certain drawings. Not all of them.

My computer is new, and there isn't much on it, or much running for that matter. The ram should be fine.. And yea I've tried restarting the comp, purging and what not.

 

Thanks though.

[SLW210]

What are the specs on your computer & graphics card, are the drivers current?

[Jack_O'neill]

Hi,

 

It just seems to be on certain drawings. Not all of them.

My computer is new, and there isn't much on it, or much running for that matter. The ram should be fine.. And yea I've tried restarting the comp, purging and what not.

 

 

Thanks though.

 

That makes me think even more that you are taxing it's abilities with those drawings. You didn't say if it was a laptop or desktop. Laptops sometimes struggle because of shared video processing instead of having a dedicated video processor. For either, the minimum requirements for ram, assuming you are using the 32 bit version is 1GB on an XP system, or 2GB if you are running Vista or newer. Video requirements are also considerable. 1280 x 1024 32-bit color video display adapter (True Color) 128 MB or greater, OpenGL®, or Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card. For Windows Vista, a Direct3D capable workstation class graphics card with 128 MB or greater is required 1024 x 768 VGA with True Color (minimum). Processor should be Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD® Athlon, 2.2 GHz or greater or Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater.

 

Keep in mind, these are minimums, not the optimal configuration. If you are doing lots of 3d work, there's no such thing as too much ram, processor or video capability.

[skenderbender17]

Its a desktop. Windows 7 Professional

processor: Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz

Installed memory(RAM): 6.00GB

System Type: 64-bit Operating system

 

I'm not sure how to check the video requirements.

 

I'm not doing any 3d work on here. And my drawings are just working drawings for buildings. manjority of my drawings are a couple hundred KB with the odd one over 1000.

[Jack_O'neill]

Its a desktop. Windows 7 Professional

processor: Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz

Installed memory(RAM): 6.00GB

System Type: 64-bit Operating system

 

I'm not sure how to check the video requirements.

 

I'm not doing any 3d work on here. And my drawings are just working drawings for buildings. manjority of my drawings are a couple hundred KB with the odd one over 1000.

 

Sorry, you said in your first post something about a shade, so I thought 3d. That should be a perfectly adequate machine for the size drawings you are doing then. I don't know what to tell you then, unless it's something to do with Windows 7. There are lots of posts on here and the other forums about troubles with it and Vista. I have no experience with either of them (XP here). Perhaps the others will have better advice for you.

[SLW210]

Do these drawings have xref's?

[skenderbender17]

yea the shade was just from hatching or using the solid command.

Thanks so much for your help!

[SLW210]

Sorry' date=' you said in your first post something about a shade, so I thought 3d. That should be a perfectly adequate machine for the size drawings you are doing then. I don't know what to tell you then, unless it's something to do with Windows 7. There are lots of posts on here and the other forums about troubles with it and Vista. I have no experience with either of them (XP here). Perhaps the others will have better advice for you.[/quote']

It could still be the graphics card. I have seen some nice machines with crappy graphics cards for AutoCAD. Is your AutoCAD 64-bit?

[skenderbender17]

yea it said 64-bit.