Large drawing speed
With a fast computer, I'd expect that even with a 775 megabyte drawing containing 14 parts including two views from assembly drawings to be faster than the molassas it is.
I'm watching the cpu useage and memory useage of Alibre and it rarely goes above 50% and never appears to use much of the 2 gigabytes of memory I've got. More time is spent idling than computing on the drawing.
With a fresh boot, things move at a reasonable pace. But as I start to work on the drawing, it slows and slows and slows.
Watching memory useage vs what I'm doing, I'm convinced that this program does't understand background processing. Ask to insert another standard view and it apparently recomputes the entire drawing before slooowly opening the files window. Adding one more simple part can be a 5 minute process.
So, shut down Alibre to restart the computer, right? It won't shut down. I have to use the Windows task manager to put it away. Even with all of the drawings closed, it still bounces between 0 and 45% or so of CPU use and apparently will do that until the power runs out. And it is still using the 775 megabytes of memory.
Restart the computer and Alibre may come up fast or slow.
I've added more memory, opened up more drive space, defragged the drives, and tried everything that has been suggested in the forums.
It is actually faster to export to AutoCAD format and compile the complex drawings in AutoCAD.
The ultimate problem is that it now won't save the file!
Surely this isn't what should be expected, should it? What might I be doing wrong? :?
3.2 Ghz, HT processors, Asus P4C800E-Deluxe motherboard, 2 gigs of RAM, 1 terrabyte of disk space across 6 drives. Radeon 9600 display card with 128 megs of display memory. Windows XP Pro SP1
With a fast computer, I'd expect that even with a 775 megabyte drawing containing 14 parts including two views from assembly drawings to be faster than the molassas it is.
I'm watching the cpu useage and memory useage of Alibre and it rarely goes above 50% and never appears to use much of the 2 gigabytes of memory I've got. More time is spent idling than computing on the drawing.
With a fresh boot, things move at a reasonable pace. But as I start to work on the drawing, it slows and slows and slows.
Watching memory useage vs what I'm doing, I'm convinced that this program does't understand background processing. Ask to insert another standard view and it apparently recomputes the entire drawing before slooowly opening the files window. Adding one more simple part can be a 5 minute process.
So, shut down Alibre to restart the computer, right? It won't shut down. I have to use the Windows task manager to put it away. Even with all of the drawings closed, it still bounces between 0 and 45% or so of CPU use and apparently will do that until the power runs out. And it is still using the 775 megabytes of memory.
Restart the computer and Alibre may come up fast or slow.
I've added more memory, opened up more drive space, defragged the drives, and tried everything that has been suggested in the forums.
It is actually faster to export to AutoCAD format and compile the complex drawings in AutoCAD.
The ultimate problem is that it now won't save the file!
Surely this isn't what should be expected, should it? What might I be doing wrong? :?
3.2 Ghz, HT processors, Asus P4C800E-Deluxe motherboard, 2 gigs of RAM, 1 terrabyte of disk space across 6 drives. Radeon 9600 display card with 128 megs of display memory. Windows XP Pro SP1