Topic: AutoCAD 2009

[Vortical]

vortical,

here is an easy way to import multiple palettes at once:

open explorer to the folder that contains all of your palettes.
turn off autohide for your palettes
right click the blue bar and select customize
while the customize dialogue box is open maximize explorer then drag your xtp files into your palette.

this will import all of your palette to the current palette
just regroup if you have groups and you're done

Thanks for that,  It really sped up the process and save me a lot of time.

[Vortical]

2009 is really unreliable though
Sometimes it gets Fatal errors when opening drawings which is a bit weird, then when I try again it works, go figure?
It crashes at least once a day
New Find & Replace tool is extremely slow
I'm finding a lot of the time it freezes and continues a second or two later.
Slow to load Layers Dialogue box, Ribbon XREF & Pallettes Windows

Anyone experience any of my issues with 2009?

2008 has no such problems?

System Details
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
E6850 Dual Core CPU
2GB DDR2 800 RAM
500GB SATA2 HDD
Nvidia 8600 GTX 256MB Video Card

[Josh Nieman]

Yea, I experience the same slowness and lagginess on 2009.

However, I have only had it crash three times in the three weeks or so I've been using it, and I consider than an Olympic level world record for Autocad, as far as I'm concerned.  Of course, I've been doing some pretty basic and simple work.

I haven't had used Find/Replace, but there has been a lot of talk about it on the adesk boards.

No fatal errors either.

[ronjonp]

My general assessment is most things are slower compared to 2008. We're getting a little "Vista-eee".

[mjfarrell]

This text below is from CADzette vol V issue 49:

AutoCAD 2009 Joins the Slow Movement
 
If you read the features section in your local newspaper, you are familiar with the slow food movement - which espouses slowing down and enjoying home-cooked meals created with local products and the slow travel movement which asks you to throw away your maps and itineraries and invites you to just wander aimlessly in foreign countries (I don't personally recommend this...I have a tendency to wander into unmarked military bases and getting escorted back to the main street by an armed soldier is a little embarrassing.)
 
With the 2009 release of AutoCAD, Autodesk introduces Slow CAD.  Press the Properties tool, then take a deep breath, inhale, exhale, release, the dialog appears.  Press the Layer Managers tool, do a sloooow stretch to alleviate any back stiffness, the Layer dialog will appear. 
 
If you are expecting dialogs to pop up instantly the way they used to in prior releases, you may get annoyed...several times I checked to see if AutoCAD was frozen, but no...it just wanted me to enter into a more relaxed, meditative statement.  A little patience goes a long way.
 
I have to think the new GUI is just extremely memory-intensive, because every time you ask for anything, there is a short pause...kind of like when you ask the waiter if the soup d'jour is from a can or made from fresh ingredients.
 
You do get used to it.  You develop a slower, more relaxed way of CAD...much less stressful, I am sure.  I really wish AutoCAD would give users the option of Fast CAD or Slow CAD, because let's face it...we all crave a fast food burger now and then. 
 
For now, practice your deep breathing ....

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[Josh Nieman]

 











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[Josh Nieman]

Here's something.  I normally don't use Publish because I abhor it.  I usually print each plot manually.  It's about as fast, and if I have a lot, I just create a little something to paste to the command line using the -plot command, and I go as fast, if not faster, than publish.
 
I gave publish a try, though, since it's a new release and all.

It didn't even work 

It says it worked.  It went through all the motions like it worked.  It said it was successful and no errors occurred.  Yet when watching my printer queue, nothing was sent to it.

If I use plot, rather than publish, it works like always.

[deegeecees]

Maybe the "Plot To File" box was checked.

[Josh Nieman]

Maybe the "Plot To File" box was checked.

Checking.

Actually uh.. where WOULD I check for that?

Attached is SS of publish and any windows that can pop up (relevant or otherwise)

I'll admit I'm pretty unfamiliar with publish on an intricate level.  So I may be at fault... I'm not blaming Autodesk on THIS one. (yet)

[architecture68-raff]

Are you trying to publish to a physical plotter, or something more along the lines of a pdf or dwf?

I have always had mixed results publishing to a physical plotter, as it always seems to skip random sheets.  Mind you, that I'm stuck on ADT 05 so things may have changed since.  When it comes to making electronic prints, however, I couldn't live w/o publish.

[Josh Nieman]

Physical plotter.

I had the problem with it skipping sheets to.  A more confusing problem is that I had problems with it printing SOME sheets upside down, and others not...even if they were all layouts of the same file, all copied from same template, etc...  always thought that one was humorous.

But yea, physical plotter.  Just some 'fit to page' 11x17s for in-house review.

[deegeecees]

Judging from that screen shot, it looks as if everything is set right, but I don't have 09' so I can't say one way or the other.

[Josh Nieman]

I'll get back to it later... I need to get some preliminary renders of a soundwall out this afternoon, so I need to switch to that project.

(time to test some 3d stuff in 09)

Has anyone that reads up on 3D stuff... do you know how we could possibly use the new procedural material type (gradient ramp) in a practical manner in Autocad?

I'm not sure I know how to use it for any practical purpose in Autocad, so I'm curious.

[mjfarrell]

I'm not sure I know how to use it for any practical purpose in Autocad, so I'm curious.

You want the new tools to work, and have a practical purpose too?   

[Josh Nieman]

I'm not sure I know how to use it for any practical purpose in Autocad, so I'm curious.

You want the new tools to work, and have a practical purpose too?   

I guess I said practical, but what I was meaning was more along the lines of: How do I use this tool as it's INTENDED to be used?