Topic: Empty drawing slow to open, purge, insert blocks

[Matt__W]

Rather than re-write everything, here's a link to my original post on the Autodesk Civil 3D forums. Trying to figure out why DWGs are only affected in Civil 3D. Slowness opening, inserting blocks from a network drive, purging.
This one is really bugging me. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc. are appreciated.

[cadtag]

to be certain you're stating with a clean template, set FILEDIA to 0, then type .NEW, and at the template prompt enter a period (.)

same problems?  (oh, and remember to reset FILEDIA back to 1)

[Matt__W]

Yup. Same problems.

[mjfarrell]

are you getting the updating old drawing message along with this general slowness?

[Matt__W]

Nope.

[mjfarrell]

how slow is it for ME to open one of those empty files?

[Matt__W]

The attached drawing takes me 32 seconds to open. From the moment I click the OPEN button to the time I get the crosshairs.

[rkmcswain]

In my heavily customized 2014 environment, it takes ±45 seconds to open.
In a plain jane 2016 environment, it takes ±45 seconds to open.
In a moderately customized 2017 environment, it takes ±20 seconds to open.

[Matt__W]

In my heavily customized 2014 environment, it takes ±45 seconds to open.
In a plain jane 2016 environment, it takes ±45 seconds to open.
In a moderately customized 2017 environment, it takes ±20 seconds to open.

Really? There's nothing in it! I don't get why it would take that long. Seems a bit much.


Side note... Still waiting to get access to ProcMon. 

[Matt__W]

In my heavily customized 2014 environment, it takes ±45 seconds to open.
In a plain jane 2016 environment, it takes ±45 seconds to open.
In a moderately customized 2017 environment, it takes ±20 seconds to open.

It took a guy in our office using AutoCAD MEP 2015 +/- 3 seconds to open it. Windows 7, SSD, 32GB.

[Jeff H]

Could load autocad's mgdbg or if one specifically for Civil(Jeff M would know), and turn on printing events to command line to see if notice anything to help narrow it down.

[Mark]

53 seconds! Win7 C3D 2016. Weird.

[mjfarrell]

I  got around 42 seconds with your posted drawing,

Then I purged and removed four &(*&%(^%*& named blocks and did a save as.

Now opens in around 16 seconds.

[Mark]

Then I purged and removed four &(*&%(^%*& named blocks and did a save as.

That is what i'm currently doing. Even running the PURGE command takes 40 seconds.

[Matt__W]

Then I purged and removed four &(*&%(^%*& named blocks and did a save as.

That is what i'm currently doing. Even running the PURGE command takes 40 seconds.

I'm glad to see you're experiencing what I'm dealing with over here. It just doesn't make any sense why everything is running so slow!

What about inserting a block? Does it take a while the first time you insert a block into that drawing?