fast regen settings?

[lroa]

is there a way to setup autocad 2009 to regen solid models faster? for example if you have tons of models in the same file that are all solids and when i pan half the drawings disappears then reappears when i stop. zoom with the mous wheel has a delay kind of jiddery same with pan.

 

computer setup if it helps

Quad 2.5

3gb of ram

9800 GTX+ 512mb

[ReMark]

Most tweaking is done via the Performance Tuner.

 

Do you have the latest drivers installed?

 

Isn't the GTX a gaming card?

[papagyi]

You should do fist "brep" to all solid!...This will remove record solid history!

Then you should playing with external references (xrefs) in final dwg!

You can see "brep" in autocad help!

[lroa]

for budget reason yes it is a gaming card, and yes i do have the latest driver.

 

correction on the solids:

we use a plug in for autocad to layout furniture in 2D. with a toolbar button we can convert the 2D into 3D. i just noticed they are all done with 3D faces. is there something to optimize autocad to regen faster on this type of block?

[Cad64]

Isn't the GTX a gaming card?

 

The 9800 GTX is a good video card. I have the same one installed in my computer at work and I have no problems. But I'm also running XP64 with 8GB RAM.

 

You might want to think about upgrading your system if you're going to be doing intensive 3D work.

[lroa]

are you on the latest drive as well? are you using autocad 09?

 

our systems are about 3 months old.

Quad 2.5

6gb of ram but 32bit Vista only sees 3gb

9800 GTX+ 512mb

 

it did come with 64bit but unfortunately the plug in does not install on a 64bit windows. i heard i can run a plug in for 64bit autocad and install it as 32bit but the plug in we use does not start since windows is still 64bit. i was thinking of manually setting up the paths to make it work problem is that it has a sister software to export to that is a stand along software that is also 32bit only.

so as you can see im SOL and have to stick to 32bit for now.

[Cad64]

are you on the latest drive as well? are you using autocad 09?

 

Lastest drivers, Yes.

Autocad 09, No.

 

I use Autocad 08 at work, but I don't use it for 3D work. I do all of my 3D in 3DS Max. But I had similar problems with Max on my previous 32 bit system with 3GB RAM. In large scenes, it would get very jumpy when panning around or orbiting the scene. I would also get a lot of flickering and dissappearing objects. That's why we upgraded my system to the 64 bit with 4GB RAM initially. This helped alot, but I still had some issues with moving around very large complex scenes. So we added another 4GB RAM and now it's smooth as silk. No more problems at all.

 

It doesn't look like you have that option though.

[Cad64]

Since you have a quad core processor, you might want to check out the WHIPTHREAD system variable. Make sure it is not set to 0.

[lroa]

thanks for the info, i tried the WHIPTHREAD its already at 1. i setup my laptop with 64bit and 4gb of ram. the graphics card is a 8600m with 512. paning and zooming with the same file is the same on both 32bit and 64bit windows Vista. im starting to think that it has to be the plugin we use. those 3d objects created by faces is killing the regen time.

 

any of you using Geforce cards that have the Nvidia control panel set a certain way? currently mine is all at default.

[Cad64]

What plugin are you using?

Does it claim to have Vista compatibility? You did say it won't run on a 64 bit system, right? So maybe it has issues with Vista as well?

[lroa]

before we upgraded our systems to included Vista i made sure to call 2020 technologies (makers of the plug in) to make sure it supports Vista. they will not do 64bit for some reason and refuse to concider it. im testing 64bit on my laptop with a file from work. its about the same issues with pan and zoom. i even went as far as to convert my geforce 8600m into a Quadro. it helped a little, but not enough. it has to be their software killing autocad 2009