Tips to speed-up operations?

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BAJ
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Tips to speed-up operations?

Post by BAJ » Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:27 pm

Another question. Many of the drawings I'll be dealing with are in AutoCAD Electrical 2011 or 2013 format. While I don't plan to make a lot of changes to these drawings (not sure what that would do to the Electrical db info), I would like to review and print them quickly. I noticed that of the drawings I've opened so far, the more Electrical components that are on the sheet, the slower QCAD responds (like ~15 seconds to open the file, ~10 seconds to change to print preview). I have an i7 3630QM @2.4GHz and 24GB of RAM, so I shouldn't be hardware-limited.

Are there settings I can change to help improve the speed when working with these drawings?

Thanks,
-Brad

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Re: Tips to speed-up operations?

Post by andrew » Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:34 pm

Yes, there are some settings to improve performance:
- Draft mode: View > Draft mode
- Edit > Application Preferences > Graphics View > Appearance > Performance:
- increase 'Text height display threshold (px)'
- increase 'Display arcs as lines below this angle (degrees)'

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Re: Tips to speed-up operations?

Post by BAJ » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:01 pm

Wow, that makes a big difference.

Can you set Draft Mode to be the default so that all dwgs are opened in draft mode? Opening the DWGs still takes 20 - 30 seconds.

Also, I could not find this setting in my version (v3.3.0.0):

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- Edit > Application Preferences > Graphics View > Appearance > Performance:
...
- increase 'Display arcs as lines below this angle (degrees)'
"

Thanks,
-Brad

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Re: Tips to speed-up operations?

Post by Clive » Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:52 pm

BAJ wrote:Can you set Draft Mode to be the default so that all dwgs are opened in draft mode? Opening the DWGs still takes 20 - 30 seconds.
No not currently, but you can add a feature request for it :wink:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/

Check out what is said about Draft Mode Main Menu > Reference Manual ...
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BAJ wrote:Also, I could not find this setting in my version (v3.3.0.0):"
- Edit > Application Preferences > Graphics View > Appearance > Performance:...
- increase 'Display arcs as lines below this angle (degrees)'
Added after 3.3.0.0
For the best support please state your operating system, QCAD version and add any supporting DXF/DWG files, screenshots etc...

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