Topic: Resizing / Stretching Viewports problem..

[hardwired]

Hi,

Does anyone experience the same problem as me, in that why is autocad 2009 sometimes so painfully slow when you try to stretch and re-size paperspace viewports with their grips? Its almost like the snap (F9) is on, but its not and it takes a few seconds to update the the cursor position on the screen - if i take off osnap (F3) it seems to improve things but only marginally..

If i do a normal stretch command on the viewports it sometimes works at normal speed, but sometime the stretch command isn't always a practical solution..

Anyone had this before and know why?

And its not just my machine its happening on (note: my machine is not the spec as in my signature, thats my own home pc), its happening to at least 3 out of 8 of us but with random drawings..

All of the pcs in our office are single-core P4s except one, half the machines are AGP graphics cards, half are PCI-Express, all graphics cards are similar spec, which is quite high, and we all have 2gb of ram in each pc..

So, in various drawings, some large in file size with many layouts and lots of modelspace stuff and some small in file size with only a few layouts, this sluggish viewport resizing is occuring..

Any ideas what could be the main cause?

No i'm presuming that 2009 is mainly written for multi-core processors so could this simply be the issue?

[sinc]

We've seen that problem.  It seems to get worse the longer the computer is running.  It's almost like a memory leak problem, except shutting down and restarting C3D doesn't help.  However, shutting down and restarting Windows seems to clear it up.

One of my co-workers was seeing this a lot, and has since taken to shutting down his computer every night.  Since then, he hasn't had the problem.

[CHulse]

I've had that issue too - not found a solution yet, just chalked it up to a buggy new release.

[Crank]

From what I've read about this, I think the Layer Properties Manager is causing your problem. See what happens when you close it first.

[Avanti]

Good call Crank.  I was just about to suggest the same thing.

[hardwired]

Layer Properties Manager - Thats a very good shout. Its like grease lightning now without that on. Cheers Crank.

Nice addition that LPM, lol. Even using it seems to take an age just to add, delete or rename a layer or doing anything at all with it..

[CHulse]

Ok, same result here. Works great with it off.

Thanks Crank!

[Crank]

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Nice addition that LPM, lol. Even using it seems to take an age just to add, delete or rename a layer or doing anything at all with it..

Try the CLASSICLAYER command, that's brings up the old LPM. Of course it's not on a palette, but at least it's fast.

[CHulse]

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Nice addition that LPM, lol. Even using it seems to take an age just to add, delete or rename a layer or doing anything at all with it..

Try the CLASSICLAYER command, that's brings up the old LPM. Of course it's not on a palette, but at least it's fast.

To add to this a little-
In recent communication with Autodesk support (my subscription really IS worth it...) there is a system variable that reverts the normal LAYER command (and therefore toolbar button) back to using the old layer manager. No neet to add a new toolbar button for CLASSICLAYER.
Simpley set LAYERDLGMODE = 0

Funny though, it's not listed in the help files anywhere...

[mjfarrell]

To add to this a little-
In recent communication with Autodesk support (my subscription really IS worth it...) there is a system variable that reverts the normal LAYER command (and therefore toolbar button) back to using the old layer manager. No neet to add a new toolbar button for CLASSICLAYER.
Simpley set LAYERDLGMODE = 0

Funny though, it's not listed in the help files anywhere...

Let me see if I follow your logic here CHulse;

The subscription program continues to allow autodesk to produce consistently buggy software, with incomplete or misleading help files.
And the 'answer' the the problem was to DISABLE the new buggy feature, that you paid for with the subscription.  I fail to see the 'value' in this.

Your answer reads like this to me:

Customer to Autodesk, "Hey this part of the new software doesn't work"

AD, "Not a problem just reload the old version and everything will be OK"

[CHulse]

YEP 

...but without the subscription, i wouldn't have known about it...