therealsaint01 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 I am currently drawing some roof tiles for a house in 3d. I moved the tiles to another drawing so i could get my machine to focus on the tiles rather than walls, windows, doors etc. My machine is still lagging hectically. Basically i would like to know is there a way i can perhaps make the roof tiles file smaller or a "block" of it so that my machine can run properly and i can import it into the drawing with the rest of the house. The roof tiles drawing is 40.3mb big. My machine isn't inadequate-hopefully. I am on a mac running vmware fusion with windows 7 32-bit and when opening editing the roof tiles file my cpu % spikes to roughly 70% then backs quickly down to 50% and will not increase with Autocad not responding-leave it for a bit and it loads but lags a bit when i orbit, copy or whateva then back to not responding. Thanks Quote
ReMark Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Possible causes for the slowdown would be... 40.3MB of just roof tiles. 32-bit system. 512MB of vidRAM. Wait a minute. How can you have 8GB of RAM and run Windows 7 32-bit? A 32-bit system wouldn't recognize 8GB of RAM. Please check that. How about bring the roof tiles in as an xref? What is the total file size of the drawing including roof tiles? And why are you drawing roof tiles in the first place? Why not add the tiles as a material then render? Quote
SLW210 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 The roof tiles drawing is 40.3mb big. :shock: Materials and mapping are your friend. Quote
therealsaint01 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Posted July 21, 2011 Remark: with the vmware i can choose how much ram and processing cores i want to run accordingly.. To be honest i didnt even know 32_bit cant read 8gb. you worked in vmware fusion before? The reason i didnt use materials is i wanted to draw the roof tiles individually and each specific tile would have a material assigned. will try with the xref idea, as well I will be looking at the mapping aspect as i read something somewhere about that. Thanks Quote
nocturne00 Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 as well I will be looking at the mapping aspect as i read something somewhere about that. Thanks xref could be an effective means by turning the off the roof tiles during modelling(eg. working on the walls, slabs, etc)and perhaps turning them back on only during rendering. Using a maps will be more practical, because you'll just have to search an image of roof tiles and attach it to the roof surface, the downside is that it just a map on a flat surface, there is no 3 dimensional view of the roof tile. Quote
ReMark Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 the total file size in 46.3mb You wouldn't mind answering the rest of my questions would you? 46.3MB? That explains the sucking noise you hear your computer making. Consider a change in your methods. Work smarter not harder. You're computer, as it presently is configured, will thank you. Quote
SLW210 Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 If you really want to do this, then your best shot is to go PC 64-bit on a dedicated workstation computer with a top of the line Graphics card and as much RAM and Clock speed as possible. That card isn't helping either, not certified card for AutoCAD 2011 and only 512MB. Quote
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